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“Hence we always try to work away from the natural condition of any pleasure to that in which it is least natural, least redolent of its Maker, and least pleasurable. An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula.”

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Book:The Screwtape Letters
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The Screwtape Letters

This work is a fictional correspondence that explores themes of temptation, morality, and spiritual warfare through the lens of a demonic mentor guiding his apprentice. more

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C.S. Lewis

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