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What would really satisfy us would be a god who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'what does it matter so long as they are contented?'
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What Would Really Satisfy Us Would Be

C. S. Lewis
What would really satisfy us would be a god who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'what does it matter so long as they are contented?'
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