What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a compan

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'Before I began this experiment I had always been haunted by the feeling that the surface of life, what everyone said about it, was quite different from the rea

'This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling

C. S. Lewis's classic analysis of the experience of reading.