"People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is."

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Source : James L. Framo (1982). “Explorations in marital and family therapy: selected papers of James L. Framo”, Springer Pub Co

James Framo

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“The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.259, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.”
“It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.”
“The finishing stroke of all sorrow.”
“To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.”
“The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.”
“Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile.”
“Yoga is really big - I'm actually a certified teacher, although I've never taught classes at a studio. I really find myself drawn to more traditional styles.”

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