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> [“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have thought that?" - lies where we have never suspected it... None of us can fully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/we-may-be-sure-that-the-characteristic-blindness-of-the-twentieth-2/)

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