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Separation and Breakup
Helen Rowland
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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Edith Wharton
In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.
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Erica Jong
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses.
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Robert Burns
He turn’d him right and round about Upon the Irish shore; And gae his bridle reins a shake, With adieu forevermore, And adieu forevermore!
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John Donne
So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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