Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflectio…

C. S. Lewis
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.7, Faber & Faber
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