A Certain Smile

"A Certain Smile"
is a 1955 French short novel
by Françoise Sagan

A romance
between a 20-year-old girl & a middle-aged man

that, obviously, fails in the end

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The novel ends up in girl's monologue;

"........Once more, I knew it, I was alone. I wanted to repeat that word to myself; alone, alone.
But what of it? I was a woman, and I had loved a man. It was a simple story; there was nothing to make a fuss about."

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Such a nonchalant
Such a spring-breeze-like
Hence, such a healthy sentiment

"I was a woman, and I had loved a man. It was a simple story; there was nothing to make a fuss about."

How many men & women can reach this organic, natural, humanly realisation after a breakup?