Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fan…

C. S. Lewis
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Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2009). Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963, p.76, HarperCollins UK
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