Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

C. S. Lewis
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.
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Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. ✨ C. S. Lewis (1984). The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces? ✨ Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold. Book by C. S. Le … ▶
We read to know we are not alone.
The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconso … ▶
We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2009). Mere Christianity, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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