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C.S. Lewis

“...the remembering of that walk was itself a new experience of just the same kind. True, it was desire, not possession. But then what I had felt on the walk had also been desire, and only possession in so far as that kind of desire itself desirable, is the fullest possession we can know on earth; or rather, because the very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting. There, to have is to want and to want is to have. Thus, the very moment when I longed to be so stabbed again, was itself such a stabbing.”

C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life by C.S. Lewis
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