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"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."
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"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."
"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."
"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."
"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."
"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
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