It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in …

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It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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