Quotes by Clive Staples Lewis

Writer and philologist, born tuesday november 29, 1898 in Belfast (Ireland), died friday november 22, 1963 in Oxford (United Kingdom)

To love at all is to be vulnerable. 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 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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