Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

“She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvere…”

“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave book…”

“so that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part …”

“One does not love a place the less because one has suffered in it.”