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To love at all is to be vulnerable, love anything and your heart will be wrung, possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even a beast. Wrap it carefully with hobbies and small luxuries. Avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the box of your selfishness. But in that box, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken but it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
To love is to be vulnerable.
To love at all is to be vulnerable, love anything and your heart will be wrung, possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even a beast. Wrap it carefully with hobbies and small luxuries. Avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the box of your selfishness. But in that box, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken but it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
To love is to be vulnerable.