I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. …

C. S. Lewis
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1966). Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1966). Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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