“When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”

— Clive Staples Lewis, book The Screwtape Letters

Letter XIV
The Screwtape Letters (1942)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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