Denis de Rougemont Quotes

Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.

Denis de Rougemont

• Passion
• Marriage
• Exclusive
• Safeguards
• Irreconcilable

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• Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Passion
  • Marriage
  • Exclusive