“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished ”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Simplified Meaning:
Love is a perfect idea, but marriage is a real-life situation; mixing up the perfect idea with real life always causes problems.
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