To love at all is to be vulnerable.

C.S. Lewis in The Four Loves (1960)
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All natural affections, including this, can become rivals to spiritual love: but they can also be preparatory imitations of it, training (so to speak) of the spiritual muscles which Grace may later put to a higher service; as women nurse dolls in childhood and later nurse children.

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Every love has its art of love.

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Our wills are ours to make them Thine.

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When natural things look most divine, the demoniac is just round the corner.

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Indeed the Friendship may be "about" almost nothing except the fact that it excludes.

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The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.

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Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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Even for their own sakes the loves must submit to be second things if they are to remain the things they want to be.

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