“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
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“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”
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Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
