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Arthur G. Chater — Translator · Swedish → English

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No human being is sole master of his fate when he has united it with another’s.

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“No human being is sole master of his fate when he has united it with another’s.”

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Key emphasizes interdependence in intimate partnership: once lives are joined, each person’s choices and development partly affect the other’s future.

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Love and Marriage, represented by Project Gutenberg #57592, English edition copyright 1911, translated from Swedish by Arthur G. Chater. The sentence appears in Key’s historical discussion of fidelity, personality and reciprocal development in love; it is early-twentieth-century social philosophy, not relationship therapy.

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