"It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life."
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"Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done."
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"The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes."
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"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
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"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."
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"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
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"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
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"Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it."
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"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."
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"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
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"Joy is the serious business of heaven."
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"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
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"Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it."
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"Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married."
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
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"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
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"love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
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"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
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"If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam."
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"Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love."
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