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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

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To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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قلت لها إن الناس يجب ألا تتزوج إلا لكي تأتي للعالم بمن هو أفضل... طفل أجمل منك، أغنى منك، أقوى منك. ما جدوى أن يتزوّج الشّقاء من التّعاسة؟ الهباب من الطّين؟ ما الجديد الّذي سنقدّمه للعالم سوى المزيد من البؤس؟ ↗

— أحمد خالد توفيق

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The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage. ↗

— Martin Luther

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Phillipa, my heart, my blood, my everything, will you for God’s and my sake marry me? ↗

— Suzanne Enoch

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I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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