Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the ‘real soul-mate’ is the one you are actually married to… In such great inevitable love, often love at first sight, we catch a vision of marriage as it should have been in an un-fallen world. In this fallen world we have as our only guides, prudence, wisdom, a clean heart, and fidelity of will. Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.
— JRR Tolkien (letter to Michael Tolkien)
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