Life And Living Quotes (page 25)
![Henry David Thoreau quote: "As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly,..."](/pic/274398/600x316/quotation-henry-david-thoreau-as-to-conforming-outwardly-and-living-your.jpg)
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![Aleister Crowley quote: "We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can..."](/pic/267137/600x316/quotation-aleister-crowley-we-must-conquer-life-by-living-it-to-the-full.jpg)
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What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized?
Michael Cunningham