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Honore de Balzac

"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."

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"Such a mad marriage never was before."

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"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."

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"12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent."

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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

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"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."

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"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."

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"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers."

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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."

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"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

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"Books and marriage go ill together."

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"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
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"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."
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"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
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"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."
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"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
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"Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue."
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"The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin."
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"To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought."
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"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."
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"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
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