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"Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship."
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"Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage."
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"Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers."
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"... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it."
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"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
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"In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker."
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"To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave."
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"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent"
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"Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise."
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"At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window."
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"What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please."
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"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
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"Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."
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"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it"
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"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."
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"Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements."
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"A young man married is a man that's marred."
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"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving."
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