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Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior. ↗


— Jane Austen


#luck #marriage #marriage

En ningún caso, solía insistir, comprendían los magos necesariamente su arte, a pesar de que la experiencia lo había llevado a un par de conclusiones generales sobre el tema. Por ejemplo, que cada vez que aprendía algo nuevo sobre sus poderes, esos poderes disminuían, o en todo caso, quedaban alterados. ↗


— John Barth


#magia #quimera #art

He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in ordinary life--it was his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall that made him famous, and fame had destroyed his ability to become a fly-on-the-wall. ↗


— C.R. Strahan


#fame #paradox #art

Art without wisdom is trash. ↗


— Kambiz Mostofizadeh


#art

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. ↗


— Terry Tempest Williams


#death-to-life #destruction #redemption #sanctification #transformation

If you were looking aside and mentally adding up the hours until the execution of a young killer, all that registered was something dark flashing by. But if you happened to be gazing directly at the window in question and you happened as well to be feeling unprecedentedly calm, four-tenths of a second was more than enough time to identify the falling object as your husband of forty-seven years. ↗


— Jonathan Franzen


#marriage

An old friend of mine named Jean fell through a tear in her marriage and landed on her feet. ↗


— Catherine McNamara


#marriage

She thought too that women didn't know what to do with themselves these days which could turn them into harridans. Hardly a female friend she knew wasn't miserable. Either mind dumb with children, or in the married condition married to an earnest toiler, or lonely unmarried in their successful career. ↗


— J.P. Donleavy


#women #marriage

Short first pregnancies do not occasion criticism in our valley, for it is widely known that the good Lord often makes first pregnancies mercifully brief as His reward to the girl for having preserved her chastity until marriage. Subsequent pregnancies, however, usually run their full terms, which only makes sense, as the very fact that they are not first pregnancies means that the mother was not chaste at the moment of conception. ↗


— Trevanian


#the-apple-tree #marriage

Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping. ↗


— Victor Hugo


#wedding #marriage






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