Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they b…

C. S. Lewis
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.150, Simon and Schuster
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