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#1

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― Lord Byron

tags: nature, poetry, solitude

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#2

“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
― Jim Henson, Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets

tags: friends, friendship

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#3

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

tags: friendship, love, romance

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#4

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

tags: friendship

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#5

“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
― Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

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#6

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing

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#7

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
― Gillian Anderson

tags: friendship, love, men, relationships, women

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#8

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

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#9

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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#10

“There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There is only you, and him, so impossibly close that nothing can come between. Not the enemy, not your allies. In this safe haven, in this hallowed place and time, I could even ask the questions whose answers I feared.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

tags: closeness, intimacy

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#11

“That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone.”
― Tim Relf, Stag

tags: intimacy, knowing, relationship-quotes

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#12

“Our lives are like a house. Some people are allowed on the lawn, some onto the porch, some get into the vestibule or the kitchen. The better friends are invited deeper into our home, into our living room.'

'And some are let into the bedroom,' said Gamache.”
― Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In

tags: intimacy

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#13

“With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

tags: insecurity, intimacy, love

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#14

“Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy.
(...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

tags: intimacy

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#15

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: intimacy, relationships, weirdness

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#16

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: humor, intimacy, sexual

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#17

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: disposition, intimacy, marianne-dashwood, openness, opportunity, self-disclosure, time

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#18

“Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.”
― David Baldacci, The Simple Truth

tags: intimacy, knowledge, understanding

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#19

“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: embarrassment, feeling, intimacy, love

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#20

“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

tags: awkward-situations, being-in-love, contact, intimacy, love

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#21

“The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy”
― Richard Bach

tags: intimacy, loneliness, love

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#22

“ 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.' ”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

tags: compromise, intimacy, lexicon, privacy, vulnerability

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#23

“Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.”
― Barbara Cartland

tags: intimacy, sex

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#24

“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”
― Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle

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#25

“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Voyager

tags: intimacy, love, romance

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#26

“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

tags: intimacy, lauren-oliver

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#27

“Distance can make a love fade, while closeness can make hate flare; as distance can make hate fade, while closeness can make love flare.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: closeness, distance, fade, flare, hate, love, relationships

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#28

“I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

tags: belonging, depth, familiarity, home, intimacy, shallowness

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#29

“Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
--Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

tags: cynical, marriage

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#30

“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: alone, content, privacy, refueling, reprive, restoration, solitude, weekend

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