[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

 

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.
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Memoirs (trans. Machen 1894), book 5 (In London and Moscow), chap. 8 (“She won’t believe it, as she knows my horror for the sacrament of matrimony.” “How is that?” “I hate it because it is the grave of love.”)

 

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