The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals

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Infidelity

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

Marriage and Morals

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Nobel laureate Philosopher Writer

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. Marriage and Morals. Allen & Unwin, 1929, ch. 16.

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Time
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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.