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Notice how we are perpetually surprised at time. ('how time flies! fancy john being grown-up and married! i can hardly believe it!') in heavens name, why? unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
-C. S. Lewis
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Notice How We Are Perpetually Surprised At

C. S. Lewis
Notice how we are perpetually surprised at time. ('how time flies! fancy john being grown-up and married! i can hardly believe it!') in heavens name, why? unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
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