“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.”
This appears in Lewis's introduction to The Four Loves — his attempt to explain why love is not optional but structural to human existence. We do not choose to need each other. The need precedes the choice.
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