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What does it mean?
Marriage is the end of romantic love.
In plain terms
Love dies when people marry.
What can you take from it?
Institutional commitment can alter romantic feelings.

Where it applies

  • relationship critique
  • personal reflection
  • societal norms

Putting it to work

  • maintain independence in marriage
  • acknowledge changing dynamics

Questions to consider

  • Does marriage change love?
  • Is romance compatible with commitment?

Another view

Many marriages are happy and loving without becoming a tomb.

More from Giacomo Casanova

  1. Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.]

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  2. [Matrimony] is the grave of love.

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  3. Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it[.]

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