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“I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began”

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The Great Divorce

C.S. Lewis' allegorical narrative follows a man who travels from a dull, grey town to the vibrant, beautiful realm of heaven, encountering various souls and reflecting on the choices that lead to different afterlives. more

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