“Is love meant to make us feel like fools?”
“But it's what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools.”
“And thus love makes fools of us all.”
“If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?”
“They were anxious to make men of us, by which they meant making us like themselves.”
“So Hella is right whenshe says, 'Love enobles [veredelt].' Erno... said, 'You've made a slip of the tongue. You meant to say: love makes fools (of people) [vereselt].”