A ceramic bowl split into a saffron half and a charcoal half joined by a gold seam on a grey background.

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C.S. Lewis

The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker suggests that present hurt cannot be separated from a happiness belonging to another time. What aches now is bound up with what was joyful then, so the pain reads as part of that happiness rather than its opposite, two halves of one experience.

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