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Honore de Balzac

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Le mariage est un combat ? outrage avant lequel les deux époux demandent au ciel sa bénédiction, parce que s'aimer toujours est la plus téméraire des entreprises; le combat ne tarde pas ? commencer, et la victoire, c'est-?-dire la liberté, demeure au plus adroit.
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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
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Part I, Meditation I: The Subject

 
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