Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't see…

C. S. Lewis
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Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.17, Faber & Faber
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