A Woman's Story of the Martyrdom of Knowledge

It is possible that under the holy fable and travesty of the life of Jesus there is hidden one of the most painful cases of the martyrdom of knowledge about love. Woman would like to believe that love can do everything, it is the superstition peculiar to her. Alas, he who knows the heart finds out how poor, helpless, pretentious and blundering, even the best and deepest love is; he finds that it rather destroys than saves. He who has such sentiments, he who has such knowledge about love, seeks for death. But why should one deal with such painful matters, provided, of course, that one is not obliged to do so? 270.