A great deal of our modern trouble has come from mixing up romantic love, which is a poetic and anarchic impulse, with marriage, which is a social institution. The French have not made this mistake, and on the whole they are considerably happier in these respects than English-speaking nations.
Source: "Sex and happiness" (In: Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, v.1 (1975))
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