It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleas…

C. S. Lewis
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It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1980). Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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