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title: "Great Intimacy Wisdom"
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> [Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stewart-o-nan/getting-inside-your-character-s-head-and-letting-the-reader-see-the/)

[Stewart O'Nan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stewart-o-nan/)

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> [There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-stahl/there-was-a-weird-intimacy-sitting-in-a-car-together-couples-sat-in/)

[Jerry Stahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-stahl/)

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> [“He has a light, fumbling brutality, which several times makes me think that this time it’ll cost me my sanity. In our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-h-eg/he-has-a-light-fumbling-brutality-which-several-times-makes-me-think/)

[Peter Høeg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-h-eg/)

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> [“...within our intimacy, I could not be a girl, nor could I be anyone's baby, I could only be a female human,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/within-our-intimacy-i-could-not-be-a-girl-nor-could-i-be-anyone-s/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

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> [“The daily decisions made to stay, to find the new equilibrium. She likes the intimacy, the shared seclusion, efforts at inclusion. How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-e-tria/the-daily-decisions-made-to-stay-to-find-the-new-equilibrium-she/)

[Jay E. Tria](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-e-tria/)

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> [My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-laurens/my-bravery-however-was-the-effect-of-assurance-for-could-i-have/)

[Henry Laurens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-laurens/)

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> [“With callused hands i tasted the softness of the moon in the coldest winds i discovered my soul's warmest fireplace in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sanober-khan/with-callused-hands-i-tasted-the-softness-of-the-moon-in-the-coldest/)

[Sanober Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sanober-khan/)

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> [Silence Of The Lambs is a fantastic film. It's a horror film, and it's an incredibly well-told film that is about point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-fuller/silence-of-the-lambs-is-a-fantastic-film-it-s-a-horror-film-and-it-s/)

[Bryan Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-fuller/)

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> [“According to data collected from a General Social Survey on average married couples have sex with each other about eighty times a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/latonya-hurt/according-to-data-collected-from-a-general-social-survey-on-average/)

[Latonya Hurt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/latonya-hurt/)

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> [“I'd been missing this, the ease of being with someone without speaking, without suppressing speech. I'd grown up with it in Karachi,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uzma-aslam-khan/i-d-been-missing-this-the-ease-of-being-with-someone-without-speaking/)

[Uzma Aslam Khan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uzma-aslam-khan/)

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> [When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-buscaglia/when-love-is-accompanied-with-deep-intimacy-it-raises-us-to-the/)

[Leo Buscaglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-buscaglia/)

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> [“But she spoke as though it were a matter of weeks rather than of years; as though, too, before our parting we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evelyn-waugh/but-she-spoke-as-though-it-were-a-matter-of-weeks-rather-than-of/)

[Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evelyn-waugh/)

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> [Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/yes-my-consuming-desire-is-to-mingle-with-road-crews-sailors-and/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-perel/when-the-impulse-to-share-becomes-obligatory-when-personal-boundaries/)

[Esther Perel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-perel/)

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> [We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernd-heinrich/we-are-social-animals-we-like-to-feel-a-part-of-something-of-beauty/)

[Bernd Heinrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernd-heinrich/)

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> [We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/we-invented-marriage-couples-invented-marriage-we-also-invented/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [“One of the sad features of most close relationships is the decay of intimacy as a function of time, turmoil, and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-antrim/one-of-the-sad-features-of-most-close-relationships-is-the-decay-of/)

[Donald Antrim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-antrim/)

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> [The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-murdoch/the-human-soul-is-not-framed-for-continued-proximity-and-the-result/)

[Iris Murdoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iris-murdoch/)

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> [“Too much intimacy, too quickly, can cause women to become needy and men to pull away. Just as men have a tendency…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-gray/too-much-intimacy-too-quickly-can-cause-women-to-become-needy-and-men/)

[John Gray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-gray/)

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> [I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juliette-lewis/i-think-early-on-i-avoided-singing-because-it-was-so-personal-and-i/)

[Juliette Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juliette-lewis/)

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> [Performing on stage is my first love - it's why I wanted to be an actor in the first place - and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-riley/performing-on-stage-is-my-first-love-it-s-why-i-wanted-to-be-an-actor/)

[Tom Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-riley/)

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> [“I’d decided last night, and strengthened my resolve this morning, to have eyes for no man but Jesus. If intimacy was really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-rachel-peterson/i-d-decided-last-night-and-strengthened-my-resolve-this-morning-to/)

[Amy Rachel Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-rachel-peterson/)

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> [We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-berry/we-need-to-move-from-a-spirituality-of-alienation-from-the-natural/)

[Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-berry/)

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> [“It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-zevin/it-s-like-when-you-take-a-trip-with-someone-you-don-t-know-very-well/)

[Gabrielle Zevin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-zevin/)

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> [The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-chambers/the-battle-of-prayer-is-against-two-things-in-the-earthlies-wandering/)

[Oswald Chambers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-chambers/)

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> [“The natural byproduct of intimacy with Jesus is that He begins to live through you and destroy the works of the devil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ryan-wyatt/the-natural-byproduct-of-intimacy-with-jesus-is-that-he-begins-to/)

[Ryan Wyatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ryan-wyatt/)

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> [“It hadn’t occurred in the physical realm, that much was true. His hand had not touched her hand. But... his mind had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laini-taylor/it-hadn-t-occurred-in-the-physical-realm-that-much-was-true-his-hand/)

[Laini Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laini-taylor/)

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> [I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flip-wilson/i-have-my-outlet-for-my-humor-through-my-characters-and-i-also-have/)

[Flip Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flip-wilson/)

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> [There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josemaria-escriva/there-is-no-danger-of-exaggerating-we-an-never-hope-to-fathom-this/)

[Josemaria Escriva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josemaria-escriva/)

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> [Attraction without intimacy define the type of love we feel for our best friends. We share secrets and personal experiences with them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/glen-rambharack/attraction-without-intimacy-define-the-type-of-love-we-feel-for-our/)

[Glen Rambharack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/glen-rambharack/)

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> [I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/polixeni-papapetrou/i-think-that-there-comes-a-point-in-the-life-of-every-young-person-to/)

[Polixeni Papapetrou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/polixeni-papapetrou/)

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> [“This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. This act, the act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/this-is-intimacy-the-trading-of-stories-in-the-dark-this-act-the-act/)

[Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/)

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> [A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mervyn-levy/a-drawing-of-the-nude-is-a-most-revealing-expression-because-it-is-at/)

[Mervyn Levy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mervyn-levy/)

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> [Why do we deprive ourselves of having intimacy and deep love with our closest friends? It's amazing... you can indeed have it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eva-victor/why-do-we-deprive-ourselves-of-having-intimacy-and-deep-love-with-our/)

[Eva Victor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eva-victor/)

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> [It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aileen-quinn/it-took-me-years-to-actually-get-comfortable-on-the-stage-i-prefer/)

[Aileen Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aileen-quinn/)

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> [I always used to say to my ex-girlfriends that I could never take a good photograph of them, because there was too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rankin/i-always-used-to-say-to-my-ex-girlfriends-that-i-could-never-take-a/)

[Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rankin/)

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> [It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-hawthorne/it-is-a-curious-subject-of-observation-and-inquiry-whether-hatred-and/)

[Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/)

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> [We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-zinsser/we-have-chosen-to-write-the-biography-of-our-disease-because-we-love/)

[Hans Zinsser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-zinsser/)

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> [The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-james/the-gifts-of-the-master-are-these-freedom-life-hope-new-direction/)

[Steven James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-james/)

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> [The meaning of secrecy is very different when the model of love is one of transparency. So to understand the politics of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/esther-perel/the-meaning-of-secrecy-is-very-different-when-the-model-of-love-is/)

[Esther Perel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/esther-perel/)

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## Top authors on Intimacy

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                        "text": "“When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is acknowledged and private space is denied, fusion replaces intimacy and possession co-opts love. It is also the kiss of death for sex. Deprived of enigma, intimacy becomes cruel when it excludes any possibility of discovery. Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.”",
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                        "text": "We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can be a religion, a political party, a ball club. Why not also Nature? I feel a strong identity with the world of living things. I was born into it; we all were. But we may not feel the ties unless we gain intimacy by seeing, feeling, smelling, touching and studying the natural world. Trying to live in harmony with the dictates of nature is probably as inspirational as living in harmony with the Koran or the Bible. Perhaps it is also a timely undertaking.",
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