"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity." ― Honore de Balzac Topic(s): Marriage Tags: contend, incessantly, marriage More From Honore de Balzac "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul." "Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless." "A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists." More In Marriage "My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."― Patrick White "I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships."― Hillary Clinton "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."― Doug Larson