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“Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!”

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Book:Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

Source: Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends

“Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.”

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Book:The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax -- and that highest climax IS marriage. It has nothing to do with law. It is a merging of two hearts into totality. It is the functioning of two persons in synchronicity -- that is marriage.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.”

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Book:Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux

Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux

“Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.”

Love Desire Love Is Marriage

Author:Mark Twain

“Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”

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Book:Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir

Source: Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir

“A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.”

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Author:Barbara Cartland

“Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live alone so he or she becomes dependent on you. And we hate the person on which we are dependent; nobody likes to depend on anybody. Our deepest desire is to have freedom, total freedom - and dependence is against freedom.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.”

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Book:The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage