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| Vilhelm Hammershoi Bedroom, 1890 |
All human beings pass away.
Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
If love is to be a blessing, not a misery,
it must be for the only Beloved who will never pass away.
...
There is no safe investment.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything,
and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact,
you must give your heart to no one, not even to 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.
The alternative to tragedy,
or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
The only place outside Heaven
where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love
is Hell.
- C. S. Lewis
아주 안전하고 조용하고 어두운 곳에
낡은 취미들과 어줍잖은 즐거움으로 칭칭감겨
제대로 움직이지도 못하게 무장되어 있던
내 마음이 덜컥 겁을 집어 먹고 하얗게 질렸다.
The whole book is quotable.
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