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Quotes from Marriage and Morals — Bertrand Russell

1872–1970

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Marriage and Morals (1929)

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Marriage and Morals (1929)

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Marriage and Morals (1929)

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

Marriage and Morals (1929)

I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.

Marriage and Morals (1929)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bertrand Russell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.