Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.
Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.