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title: "Great Intimacy Proverbs"
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> [Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-blanchot/every-artist-is-linked-to-a-mistake-with-which-he-has-a-particular/)

[Maurice Blanchot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-blanchot/)

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> [Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-anderson/sometimes-i-genuinely-enjoy-having-conversations-with-journalists/)

[Gillian Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-anderson/)

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> [Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/love-can-never-really-be-a-great-base-for-marriage-because-love-is/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [Not everyone wants to know everything their partner did. Maybe it's enough to say, "Things aren't going well in our marriage. I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-strayed/not-everyone-wants-to-know-everything-their-partner-did-maybe-it-s/)

[Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cheryl-strayed/)

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> [“Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-williamson/can-the-purpose-of-a-relationship-be-to-trigger-our-wounds-in-a-way/)

[Marianne Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-williamson/)

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> [The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-welwood/the-less-you-demand-total-fulfillment-from-relationships-the-more-you/)

[John Welwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-welwood/)

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> [“If loneliness is to be defined as a desire for intimacy, then included within that is the need to express oneself and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olivia-laing/if-loneliness-is-to-be-defined-as-a-desire-for-intimacy-then-included/)

[Olivia Laing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olivia-laing/)

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> [No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/parker-j-palmer/no-scientist-knows-the-world-merely-by-holding-it-at-arm-s-length-if/)

[Parker J. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/parker-j-palmer/)

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> [ “\[About sex\]: If we’re not intentional about pursuing God’s best for our marriages, and grasping the tremendous role intimacy plays in that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-mcmillan/about-sex-if-we-re-not-intentional-about-pursuing-god-s-best-for-our/)

[Joy McMillan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joy-mcmillan/)

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> [“Trust and intimacy, he thought, smiling contentedly when Kevin wrapped one arm around his waist, and buried his nose in Cedric’s nape.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taylor-v-donovan/trust-and-intimacy-he-thought-smiling-contentedly-when-kevin-wrapped/)

[Taylor V. Donovan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taylor-v-donovan/)

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> [“Perhaps you think that by intimacy I mean sex, so allow me to clarify. Sex can be intimate but isn’t necessarily so;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-fonda/perhaps-you-think-that-by-intimacy-i-mean-sex-so-allow-me-to-clarify/)

[Jane Fonda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-fonda/)

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> [“Since I spent much of my childhood being left behind and ignored, one might think that, as an adult, moments of perceived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/penny-reid/since-i-spent-much-of-my-childhood-being-left-behind-and-ignored-one/)

[Penny Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/penny-reid/)

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> [People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/people-have-become-afraid-of-love-because-in-love-also-death/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/elizabeth-taylor-is-in-my-opinion-the-greatest-actress-in-film/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

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> [I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy. Is intent, is the balance between the familiar and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-doyle/i-think-the-point-of-cinematography-of-what-we-do-is-intimacy-is/)

[Christopher Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-doyle/)

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> [Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abigail-washburn/whenever-i-visited-china-in-the-past-the-relationships-always-felt/)

[Abigail Washburn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abigail-washburn/)

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> [“I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vironika-tugaleva/i-wanted-for-so-long-for-someone-to-understand-me-better-than-i/)

[Vironika Tugaleva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vironika-tugaleva/)

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> [“There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/banana-yoshimoto/there-was-a-real-sense-of-comfort-but-at-the-same-time-it-felt-oddly/)

[Banana Yoshimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/banana-yoshimoto/)

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> [The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ted-olson/the-supreme-court-has-said-that-marriage-is-the-most-important/)

[Ted Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ted-olson/)

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> [“There is a magic to intimacy, a world built of sighs and skin that is thicker than brick, stronger than iron. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodi-picoult/there-is-a-magic-to-intimacy-a-world-built-of-sighs-and-skin-that-is/)

[Jodi Picoult](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodi-picoult/)

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> [“Intimacy is a word with eight letters. A word with a sly hiss to it. But then it begins, like love affairs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-hanrahan/intimacy-is-a-word-with-eight-letters-a-word-with-a-sly-hiss-to-it/)

[Catherine Hanrahan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-hanrahan/)

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> [We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-mason/we-do-not-merely-give-a-religious-education-because-that-would-seem/)

[Charlotte Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-mason/)

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> [Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-parfit/watersheds-come-in-families-nested-levels-of-intimacy-as-you-work/)

[Michael Parfit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-parfit/)

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> [“Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stefan-molyneux/successful-relationships-are-those-relationships-were-conflicts-are/)

[Stefan Molyneux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stefan-molyneux/)

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> [What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/what-are-you-thinking-of-so-earnestly-said-he-as-they-walked-back-to/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

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> [We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-shade/we-should-expect-hope-s-reciprocity-as-a-natural-flowering-of-the/)

[Patrick Shade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-shade/)

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> [Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claudia-rankine/intimacy-is-important-in-my-work-because-i-don-t-understand-existence/)

[Claudia Rankine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claudia-rankine/)

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> [You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kiki-smith/you-start-with-a-generic-body-but-i-think-the-first-wall-you-hit-with/)

[Kiki Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kiki-smith/)

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> [The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-orff/the-subject-matter-covered-in-carmina-stays-pretty-basic-love-lust/)

[Carl Orff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-orff/)

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> [When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-wildhorn/when-the-theater-is-gothic-it-matches-the-sensibility-of-the-show-it/)

[Frank Wildhorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-wildhorn/)

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> [“oaking” seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-boone/oaking-seems-like-a-crazy-word-in-an-intimacy-book-yet-that-is/)

[Linda Boone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-boone/)

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> [Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-millman/fear-is-like-a-little-garden-spider-that-makes-us-jump-back-or-the/)

[Dan Millman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-millman/)

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> [“I started smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol for the same reason I would sometimes tell self aggrandizing lies; I was wanting in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cory-duchesne/i-started-smoking-cannabis-and-drinking-alcohol-for-the-same-reason-i/)

[Cory Duchesne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cory-duchesne/)

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> [I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-murdoch/i-hate-solitude-but-i-m-afraid-of-intimacy-the-substance-of-my-life/)

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

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> [“But love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/but-love-doesn-t-control-and-i-suppose-that-s-why-it-s-the-ultimate/)

[Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/)

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> [When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-o-donohue/when-love-awakens-in-your-life-in-the-night-of-your-heart-it-is-like/)

[John O'Donohue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-o-donohue/)

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> [In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-nouwen/in-other-words-first-we-must-call-people-to-communion-with-god-to/)

[Henri Nouwen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-nouwen/)

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> [In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stanley/in-our-friendships-we-have-to-be-wise-that-we-choose-godly-people-to/)

[Charles Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stanley/)

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> [“The things we need most are the things we have become most afraid of, such as adventure, intimacy, and authentic communication. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-eisenstein/the-things-we-need-most-are-the-things-we-have-become-most-afraid-of/)

[Charles Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-eisenstein/)

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> [I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-waits/i-ve-made-a-profound-transformation-i-ve-fashioned-some-cyber/)

[Tom Waits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-waits/)

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                        "text": "Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.",
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                        "text": "“Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds? In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens; darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed. The purpose of an intimate relationship is not that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses, but rather where we can safely let them go. It takes strength of character to truly delve into the mystery of an intimate relationship, because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery, an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation into the higher Self. Only then can we know an enchantment that lasts.”",
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                        "text": "The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.",
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                        "text": "“If loneliness is to be defined as a desire for intimacy, then included within that is the need to express oneself and to be heard, to share thoughts, experiences and feelings. Intimacy can't exist if the participants aren't willing to make themselves known, to be revealed. But gauging the levels is tricky. Either you don't communicate enough and remain concealed from other people, or you risk rejection by exposing too much altogether: the minor and major hurts, the tedious obsessions, the abscesses and cataracts of need and shame and longing.”",
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                        "text": "No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without moments of intimacy as well. Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come into deeper community with what we know.",
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                        "text": "“[About sex]: If we’re not intentional about pursuing God’s best for our marriages, and grasping the tremendous role intimacy plays in that relationship, what was intended to be deeply enjoyed - a passionate, life-giving love affair... alight with laughter, fiercely protected, and drenched in freedom - becomes a stuffy, awkward thing to be endured.”",
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                        "text": "“Trust and intimacy, he thought, smiling contentedly when Kevin wrapped one arm around his waist, and buried his nose in Cedric’s nape. That’s what it came down to at the end. It wasn’t all about the sex, or about knowing each other’s every secret and background. It was about feeling fulfilled, forming a bond, and knowing you belonged together.”",
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                        "text": "“Perhaps you think that by intimacy I mean sex, so allow me to clarify. Sex can be intimate but isn’t necessarily so; sometimes it’s just the pleasurable stimulation of genitalia. By intimacy I mean an attunement between two people who, despite each other’s evident flaws, open their hearts fully to each other. This openness makes them vulnerable, so trust is key. So is self-love: It’s impossible to be truly intimate with someone if you don’t like yourself.”",
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                        "text": "“Since I spent much of my childhood being left behind and ignored, one might think that, as an adult, moments of perceived abandonment would feel old hat. The truth is, as an adult, I am always waiting to be left behind. I’m always ready to be discarded and, therefore, I spend a significant amount of time preparing for this eventuality. I lower my expectations, I don’t seek out meaningful relationships, and I don’t engage in any sort of real intimacy, physical or otherwise. Engage is the key word here. Except, when I engage, when it happens, when I’m left behind it doesn’t feel old hat. It feels like it did the first time and it takes me by surprise. So, I don’t let it happen.”",
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                        "text": "People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy, not even talking… Talking is an escape, an escape from love. When two lovers are talking that simply shows they are avoiding the intimacy. Words in-between give distance - with no words distance disappears, death appears. In silence there is death just lurking around - a beautiful phenomenon. But people are so afraid that they go on talking whether it is needed or not. They go on talking about anything, everything - but they cannot keep silent.",
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                        "text": "Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.",
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                        "text": "I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy. Is intent, is the balance between the familiar and the dream, it is being subjective and objective, it is being engaged and yet standing back and noticing something that perhaps other people didn’t notice before, or celebrating something that you feel is beautiful or valid, or true or engaging in some way.",
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                        "text": "Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.",
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                        "text": "“I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all better. I thought that the hardest part of a loving, mutually healing relationship would be showing my vulnerable, raw spots to a person, even though I'd been hurt so many times before. This has not been the hardest part. The actual hardest part has been realizing that no one, no matter how compassionate and kind they are, will say the perfect things always. Myself included. The hardest part has been learning to communicate what I need, to hear what others need, to tell others how to tell me what they need. Intimacy takes communication. A lot of it. We all have triggers. I don't know your triggers, and you don't know mine. No matter how much I love or trust you, you cannot possibly know exactly the words I need to hear, the words I don't want to hear, and the way I like to be touched. And how strange that we expect these things of each other. How strange (and self-sabotaging) that we refuse to get into relationships and friendships with people unless they treat us in just that perfect way. We've been raised to want fairy tales. We've been raised to wait for flawless saviors to rescue us. But the savior isn't flawless and the savior is not coming. The savior is you. The savior is still learning. The savior is never done learning. The savior is a human being. Forget perfect. Forget flawless. And start speaking your truth. Start speaking what you want and how you want it. And start asking and listening, really listening, to what the people around you say. Maybe, then, we will stop abandoning and hurting each other. Maybe, then, there's hope for us.”",
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                        "text": "“There was a real sense of comfort but at the same time it felt oddly tense. The feeling that every little things we said, these conversations, at any moment, they could stop being possible, and so they were precious, it was that feeling, and the sense of the miracle of this shared moment, here and now. Why were we so far apart, even when we are together? It was anice loneliness, like th sensation of washing your face with cold water.”",
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                        "text": "The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation of society. It is essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness. It's a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights and older than our political parties. One of the liberties protected by the Due Process Clause. A right of intimacy to the degree of being sacred. And a liberty right equally available to a person in a homosexual relationship as to heterosexual persons.",
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                        "text": "“Intimacy is a word with eight letters. A word with a sly hiss to it. But then it begins, like love affairs do, with a chance meeting, and then a raw empty something needing to be sated, something you didn‘t notice before…but suddenly it squawks like a hungry bird, day and night, refusing to be ignored. You love and revile it, this sore shrieking something. Or is it nothing? Or everything? It doesn‘t matter. It‘s yours. It‘s you.”",
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                        "text": "We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may at the same time be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.",
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                        "text": "Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation, a little out of hand. The lake is your cousin. The creek is your sister. The pond is her child. And, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, you're married to your sink.",
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                        "text": "“Successful relationships are those relationships were conflicts are successfully resolved and in fact peoples intimacy, closeness, and love are enhanced through the resolution of conflicts. I have always become closer to my wife and to my friends when we have conflicts and work through them successfully because conflicts will always arise. They are an opportunity for intimacy, self-knowledge, and a greater connection.”",
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                        "text": "What are you thinking of so earnestly?\" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; \"not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory.\" Catherine coloured, and said, \"I was not thinking of anything.\" That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me.\" Well then, I will not.\" Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.",
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                        "text": "We should expect hope's reciprocity as a natural flowering of the life of hope. Helping others and nurturing hope is expressive of hopefulness itself. It is an extension of the hopeful self to reach out to others, promoting the connection of agency and the enrichment of horizons of meaning. Hope's reciprocity grows out of the very social nature of hope; we thus frequently see it live in family relations, in intimacy, in love. And so hope spreads. This spreading should not surprise us; like love, it is freely given, fostered, and nurtured.",
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                        "text": "Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.",
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                        "text": "You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.",
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                        "text": "The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease.",
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                        "text": "When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.",
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                        "text": "In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.",
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