Do we really save each other from solitude
through marriage
or do we just
fall into
marital loneliness?
or maybe life is just
an ode to solitude
and marriage not
the biggest miracle of our life
we are together
but apart
married
but more lonely
"Everything is still in confusion and nothing is any better. All relations are muddled and their lives are incontestably based on a heap of wretched compromises. But somehow they are now citizens of the world of reality in quite a different way from before. At least I think so."
--Ingmar Bergman, The Marriage Scenarios, trans. Alan Blair (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978), pp. 2-5.
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