When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had … - C. S. Lewis

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Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

C. S. Lewis

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

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