But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is …

C. S. Lewis
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But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Perelandra, p.17, Simon and Schuster
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