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| Camille Redon, par Odilon Redon |
C'est la fidélité qui transforme le flirt en amour. L'attraction initiale n'est jamais innocente. Elle est toujours motivée. La fidélité sauve l'attraction, elle lui donne l'innocence qu'elle n'a jamais eue. Ce n'est pas une innocence vierge, d'avant le péché. C'est une innocence inventée, nouvelle, qui n'a jamais existé auparavant. Donc vierge finalement, mais pas au sens "comme avant", mais au sens "comme jamais auparavant". Inouïe. Toute fraîche. Un couple se sauve l'un l'autre. La fidélité sauve le monde en le re-créant.
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A spouse is the reverse of society.
Marriage is a recognition by society of the limits of its jurisdiction. It's a ceasefire, the tracing of a line of actual control. The spouse is the accomplice, the partner in crime, that doesn't answer to society. The spouse is a witness and a keeper of truth that doesn't need any endorsement by any authority. The married person is blessed by a keeper of truth that doesn't belong to society. It makes life more complicated but also more free. Society is the other keeper of truth. What the married person answers to her spouse and what she answers to society is a subject of permanent negotiation. That evolving negotiation is the person herself, it's her force of life.
People who are not married have other loyalties. They have their own way of not being entirely answerable to society, of also having a loyalty of their sovereign choosing.
That's the reason why a couple is always imagined either as a king and a queen, or as a couple of gangsters, partners in crime. They create their own sovereignty.
People who are not married also have their own sovereignty, in that sense they are also married, but in their own way, often more secret. But they are also queens and kings of their own kingdoms.
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