If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house …

C. S. Lewis
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If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2014). A Grief Observed Readers' Edition: With contributions from Hilary Mantel, Jessica Martin, Jenna Bailey, Rowan Williams, Kate Saunders, Francis Spufford and Maureen Freely, p.21, Faber & Faber
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