If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look fo…

C. S. Lewis
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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