Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Marriage
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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
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The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.
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