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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

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I'm interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Alain de Botton

We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

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Violence Quote

Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

- Obafemi Awolowo

Sad Quote

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

Happiness Quote

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

Life Quote

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

People Quote

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

- Maya Angelou

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