Denis de Rougemont Quotes

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• Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral…
• Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and…
• Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster…
• Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
• What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the…
• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an…
• Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?
• Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their…
• Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid…
• A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.
• Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.

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