A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Marriage

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Czech Republic Europe

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Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Emanuel von Bodman. 17 Aug. 1901.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

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Marriage Gender relations Men and women
Speaker
Lord Henry "Harry" Wotton

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Oscar Wilde
Source
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Medium
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Language
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Time
1890 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 3.

Current Citation

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Another quote originally in German

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Genealogy of Morals
Genre
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Language
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Time
1887 1880s 19th century
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic]. Leipzig: Verlag von C. G. Neumann, 1887, essay 1.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. On the Genealogy of Morals, translated by Michael A. Scarpitti. Penguin Classics, 2014, essay 1.