“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
Lewis wrote A Grief Observed immediately after his wife Joy died of cancer in 1960 — one of the most honest accounts of grief ever written, originally published under a pseudonym. This line is not philosophical speculation.
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