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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.