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"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."
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"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
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"A young man married is a man that's marred."
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"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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"What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage."
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"Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal."
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"Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want."
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"Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy."
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"But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital - this would be unendurable."
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"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"
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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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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
Faith

"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
Society

"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
Man

"Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings."
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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."
Life

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
Society

"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."
Truth

"Be that self which one truly is."
Self

"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
Being
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