All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt