It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or…

C. S. Lewis
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It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. ✨ A Grief Observed. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1961.
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