" (...) jealousy is painful not least because it sees the object of love, once sacred, as now desecrated.
One cure for the pain of desecration is the move towards total profanation: in other words, to wipe out all vestiges of sanctity from the once worshipped object, to make it merely a thing of the world, and not just a thing in the world, something that is nothing over and above the substitutes that can at any time replace it. "

― Roger Scruton , Beauty