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Alain de Botton

"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."

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Donna Grant

"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

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Donna Grant

"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."

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Donna Grant

"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."

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Donna Grant

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

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Donna Grant

"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."

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Donna Grant

"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."

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Donna Grant

"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."

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Donna Grant

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."

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Donna Grant

"Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage."

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Donna Grant

"It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working."

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Alain de Botton
"A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don't dare or know how to communicate them to others."

Identity

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Alain de Botton
"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."

Marriage

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Alain de Botton
"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."

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Alain de Botton
"We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety."

People

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Alain de Botton
"If we were entirely sane, if madness did not have a serious grip on one side of us, other people's tragedies would hold a great deal less interest for us."

Psychology

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Alain de Botton
"There is something improbably about the silence in the [subway] carriage, considering how naturally gregarious we are as a species. Still, how much kinder it is for the commuters to pretend to be absorbed in other things, rather than revealing the extent to which they are covertly evaluating, judging, condemning and desiring each other. A few venture a glance here and there, as furtively as birds pecking grain. But only if the train crashed would anyone know for sure who else had been in the carriage, what small parts of the nation's economy had been innocuously seated across the aisle just before the impact: employees of hotels, government ministries, plastic-surgery clinics, fruit nurseries and greetings-card companies."

Society

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Alain de Botton
"Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow into complete abnormalities in the child which will be produced."

Psychology

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Alain de Botton
"Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment."

Wisdom

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Alain de Botton
"Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from."

Emotion

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Alain de Botton
"For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations....Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle."

Reality

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