“The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.”
John Updike book Couples
Source: Couples (1968), Ch. 5
“Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.”
— Marcel Proust, book In Search of Lost Time
L'adultère introduit l'esprit dans la lettre que bien souvent le mariage eût laissée morte.
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. V: The Captive (1923)
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