All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been th…

C. S. Lewis
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All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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