And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always cr…

C. S. Lewis
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And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day? ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Out of the Silent Planet, p.75, Simon and Schuster
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