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"The books or the movies in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing.

These things-the beauty, the memory of our own past-are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself then they turn into dumb idols, breaking the heart of their worshipers. 

For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of the flower we have not found, the echo of a  tune we have not heard , news from a country we have not yet visited."

VIA THE WEIGHT OF GLORY, C.S. LEWIS