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C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces Quotes: It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
         

It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.


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It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake.
         



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