If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the worl…

C. S. Lewis
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If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't. ✨ C.S. Lewis (2012). A Grief Observed, p.20, Faber & Faber
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