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C. S. Lewis
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the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1980). Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1980). Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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