We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which ca…

C. S. Lewis
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We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2009). Weight of Glory, p.42, Harper Collins
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