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But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives and have, by the second mont...more

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Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

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As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepa...more

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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 chos...more

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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and w...more

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Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

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They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

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I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kep...more

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Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brot...more

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He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to her and was looking t...more