The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wande…

C. S. Lewis
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The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other... ✨ C. S. Lewis (1980). Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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