When you are young, you think it’s going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close – as close as you can get – to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.

I don’t know. If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?

Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it’s intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you’ve actually become one with the other person. Merged souls, and so on. You thing you’ll never be lonely again. Only it doesn’t last and soon you realize you can only get so close, and you end up brutally disappointed, more alone that ever, because the illusion - the hope you’d held on to all those years - has been shattered.