Relation Quotes

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. — Oscar Wilde
S and M is only the expression in the bedroom of an oppressive-submissive relation which can happen also in the kitchen or at the factory,… — Marilyn French
At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you.… — Hanif Kureishi
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. — Guy Debord
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth… — Rebecca Solnit
...a man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them. — Robert Penn Warren
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent… — Anais Nin
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases… — Marcel Proust
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but… — Marcel Proust
The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs. — Jostein Gaarder
...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the… — Thomas Hardy
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his… — William Makepeace Thackeray
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political… — George Washington
The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to… — Soren Kierkegaard
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,… — Joseph Conrad
...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity… — Michel Foucault
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place… — Italo Calvino
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are… — Dorothy L. Sayers

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