Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that…

C. S. Lewis
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Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1995). The last battle
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