“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”
Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
“The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
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