C. S. Lewis Quotes

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

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• No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Solitude