Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and …

C. S. Lewis
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2012). The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics, p.98, HarperCollins UK
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