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"Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them-children, duties, visits, bores, relations-the things that protect married people from each other. We've been too close together-that has been our sin. We've seen the nakedness of each other's souls."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
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"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
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"Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret."
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"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
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"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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"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
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"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"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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"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears."
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"I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting."
Life

"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet."
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"I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views."
Being

"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."
Time

"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
Time

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
Time

"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
Money

"Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them-children, duties, visits, bores, relations-the things that protect married people from each other. We've been too close together-that has been our sin. We've seen the nakedness of each other's souls."
Marriage

"What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest."
Desire
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