Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears…

C. S. Lewis
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Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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