The noble style immobilizes its subjects.
Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.
There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.
In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.