"Love anything and your heart will be wrung
and possibly broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact
you must give it to
no one, not even an animal. Wrap it round with hobbies
and little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements.
Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket, safe, dark,
motionless, airless,
it will change.
It will not become broken;
it will become unbreakable,
inpenetrable, irredeemable.
To love is to be vulnerable."
-- C.S. Lewis
and possibly broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact
you must give it to
no one, not even an animal. Wrap it round with hobbies
and little luxuries;
avoid all entanglements.
Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket, safe, dark,
motionless, airless,
it will change.
It will not become broken;
it will become unbreakable,
inpenetrable, irredeemable.
To love is to be vulnerable."
-- C.S. Lewis
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