"For Love is Immortality."
-Emily Dickinson


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Arundhati Roy on Love

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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MARRIAGE:

MAMAANDPAPA. MamaPapa. PapaMama. It was hard to believe they had ever had separate existences, that they had been separate entities and not MamaPapa in one breath. Yet Mama had been born to a merchant family in the city of Kanpur and lived in the bosom of her enormous family till at sixteen she married Papa. Papa, in Patna, the son of a tax inspector with one burning ambition, to give his son the best available education, had won prizes at school meanwhile, played tennis as a young man, trained for the bar, and had eventually built up a solid practice. This much the children learnt chiefly from old photographs, framed certificates, tarnished medals and the conversations of visiting relatives. MamaPapa themselves rarely spoke of a time when they were not one. The few anecdotes the related separately acquired great significance because of their rareity, their singularity.
-Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting, p. 5

“Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.”
-Emily Dickinson

Marriage didn't have to do with sex. It dealt with money. There was never enough money for dowries. This left us open to humiliation, but even this was not necessarily aggrivating because the girl's side was expected to abase themselves.
-Kumar, 90

-Historically people did not marry for love.
-Sarah Williams, as I remember it, November 4th, 2010
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