That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot love: they have to learn it. With their whole being, with all their powers, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But the period of learning is always a long, secluded time, and so, for a long time to come and far on into life, love is:—solitude, heightened and deepened loneliness for the person who loves.
