It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.