“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.”
Lewis wrote The Four Loves in his sixties, after the loss of his wife Joy to cancer — the grief he later documented in A Grief Observed. He had arrived at love late in life and paid the price for it fully.
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