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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Born: Nov 29, 1898
Died: Nov 22, 1963

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