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Some are called to chastity (which is a separate condition from celibacy). Others, uncertain, may try for it, and if unable to maintain it, acknowledge honourable defeat and are content with aspiration toward the lesser goals. Clearly a marriage for affinity and companionship, platonic, without physical love, is more difficult to realize but more suited to those who do not wish to forfeit the higher goals.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 7 : Sex > # 146