He wishes to be assured that he is not loved for this or that good quality, but for himself, or something as like himself as he can contrive to set forward.
他希望确信,自己被爱并非因为某一种优点,而是因为他本身,或者他所能呈现的、最接近真实自己的样子。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Virginibus Puerisque · III · On Falling in Love —