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Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at one another back toward the community. If they had...more

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Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful careeris...more

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A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and ano...more

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The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones forsaken. The marriage vow unites not just a woman ...more

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Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and ...more

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What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when what we have chosen and what we desire are the same....more

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Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relationship” involving (ideally) two successful careeris...more