Mein hertz brennt...

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little lxuries; avoid all entangelements; lock it up safe in the casketor coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable (CS Lewis). - Amor e morte