"love anything
and your heart will be wrung and possibly
if you want to make sure of keeping it intact
you must give it to no one,
not even an animal.
wrap it carefully 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 be broken;
it will become
unbreakable,
impenetrable,
irredeemable.
to love is to be vulnerable."
-- clive staples lewis
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