The Insulted and the Injured

I have never had any illusions about you.

I know you are foolish, frivolous, and empty-headed, and yet I love you.

I know your ambitions, your ideals, your greed, and your vulgarity, and yet I love you.

I know you are second-rate, and yet I love you.

- W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

Theme: In the elective course called love, we're all failing students.