"Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins……" — Denis de Rougemont
"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 the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards."
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Denis de Rougemont
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11 Quotes by Denis de Rougemont
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Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than…
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Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the…
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Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
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What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of…
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To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being,…
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Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?
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Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is…
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Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as…
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A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.
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Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.
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