Themes
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
— François de la Rochefoucauld · Maxim 76
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
True love is compared to something people discuss much more often than they see. Ghosts give that doubt a playful shape. The remark questions how often the romantic ideal turns up in life, even while acknowledging how readily people talk about it.
Context reviewed