How to survive the modern marriage

A modern lover dons his new tails and makes a tentative advance towards the battleground where the victorious, resolute person whose will carried him to this point awaits him. No, not her will-the mysterious, unchanging will of nature, which is unconcerned with our sexual disputes or the outcome of our small liaisons and spitefulness. Because, as Schopenhauer puts it: "It is the future generation, in all its individual determination, which, by means of that hustle and bustle, finds its way into existence urges, the institution of marriage continues to flourish despite being bombarded, reviled, wounded by thousands of assaults, and tainted by the sins of centuries. "The last word will always belong to the will to live."