Yes, I know – one doesn’t even want to be cured of one’s pride because it gives pleasure. But the pleasure of pride is like the pleasure of scratching. If there is an itch one does want to scratch: but it is much nicer to have neither the itch nor the scratch. As long as we still have the itch of self-regard we shall want the pleasure of self approval; but the happiest moments are those when we forget our precious selves and have neither, but have everything else (God, our fellow humans, animals, the garden and the sky) instead.

CS Lewis, The Collected Letters III

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