“That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.”
Too Far To Go, foreword (1979)
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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes
Nick Drake (poet) (1961) British writer
Ch 8
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)
Context: A little distance had opened between us, almost unnoticed, rarely acknowledged. We made love infrequently. The couch was for sleep at the end of exhausting days. I confided in her less often. Perhaps that is the fate of all marriages.
“All romances end at marriage.”
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd
Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.”
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book X, sec. 28
History of Rome
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
"The Precession of Simulcra,MÖBIUS - SPIRALING NEGATIVETY
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Cao Cao (155–220) Chinese warlord during the Eastern Han Dynasty
Statement to Chen Gong after falsely killing Lü Boshe and his household. Source: Romance of the Three Kingdoms. An adaptation of the Sanguo Zhi new 2010.
likely intentional misquote by the novel of the quote「宁我负人，毋人负我」above to add character to the story.
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