I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, howe…

C. S. Lewis
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.29, Faber & Faber
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