A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking,…

C. S. Lewis
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. ✨ Out of the Silent Planet. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1938.
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A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. ✨ Out of the Silent Planet. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1938.

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