There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a
mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and
their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke
with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting
splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must
play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest
kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other
seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
C.S. Lewis
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