“Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.”

—  Karl Bowman

Quoted in Aaron Ben-Ze'ev (2001), The Subtlety of Emotions, p. 445 http://books.google.com/books?id=S0rkL_Unl-cC&pg=PA445

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American psychiatric researcher 1888–1973

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