Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble t…

C. S. Lewis
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Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? ✨ Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1956.
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