“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis, book Out of the Silent Planet

Hyoi, p. 76
Out of the Silent Planet (1938)

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