“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis, book The Four Loves

The Four Loves (1960)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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