Love requited is a short circuit.
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
The end of a life is always vivifying.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.