Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, … - Katherine Anne Porter

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In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side. ’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

Katherine Anne Porter

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

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But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

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I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

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