“A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great …”

“A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I think the something is 'the whole quality of life as we actually experience it.'”

— C. S. Lewis

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Context

Letter to Lucy (11 September 1958); in C. S. Lewis' Letters to Children (1988)

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Lewis, C. S.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: C. S. Lewis. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

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