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The Four Loves

By C.S. Lewis

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| Paperback | 9780156329309

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A candid, wise, and warmly personal book in which Lewis explores the possibilities and problems of the four basic kinds of human love- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. “Immensely worthwhile for its simplicity...a rare and memorable book” (Sydney J. Harris).

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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 selfish ... (continue)

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.
C. S. Lewis

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Littleferryboats said on Oct 7, 2010 | Add your feedback

A delightful book! Lewis' expositions of Gift-loves and Need-loves, and the chapter on Friendship are superb.
One excellent picture which remains in my mind is that of Mrs Fidget. Lewis is dealing with affection. He says: "I am thinking of Mrs Fidget, who died a few months ago. It is really as ... (continue)

A delightful book! Lewis' expositions of Gift-loves and Need-loves, and the chapter on Friendship are superb.
One excellent picture which remains in my mind is that of Mrs Fidget. Lewis is dealing with affection. He says: "I am thinking of Mrs Fidget, who died a few months ago. It is really astonishing how her family have brightened up. The drawn look has gone from her husband's face; he begins to be able to smile." And Lewis goes on to tell of how Mrs Fidget "lived for her family" providing them with a hot lunch every day and a hot meal every night (even in mid-summer) and despite their protest she continued to "slave-away" for them. It really is a first-class piece of writing, and the point he wishes to make could not have been brought out more forcefully.

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