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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
-- Honore de Balzac ("The Physiology of Marriage," 1829)

We ignore truths for temporary happiness

"True friendship is never serene."
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

"I have to find a way of saying the truth without saying it; that is exactly what is literature, after all: clever lies which only secretly say the truth."
-- Simone de Beauvoir

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
-- Lucille Ball