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• So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

  Will Self

  Phones, Hands, Cards

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• The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

  Alain de Botton

  Love, Two, People

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• One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

  Anthony Powell

  Knowing, People, Important

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement”, University of Chicago Press

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• If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.

  Greg Behrendt

  Men, Including, Ifs

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Growing Up, Important, Wonderful

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• An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

  Charles Williams

  Two, Mind, Literature

  Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.121, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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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 that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

  Charles Stanley

  Friends, Wise, Mean

  "Dr. Charles Stanley: Learning to Walk Wisely". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

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• When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

  Charles Stanley

  Restoration, Scar, Sin

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• In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Love, Spiritual, Order

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• Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

  Plutarch

  Book, Delight, Speak

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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, 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.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Meditation, World

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Hurt, Future, History

  Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

  John Eldredge

  Lying, Adventure, True Life

  John Eldredge (2007). “Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers”, p.165, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You ask actors what they would like to do, and you constantly keep them engaged. You want their engagement, input, and sensibilities. It's that intimate collaboration that is actually directing. I don't like the mechanicalness or coldness; I like the intimacy. It's like we are creating a child together.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Children, Together, Collaboration

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Mother, Distance, Thinking

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• the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Giving, Wife

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Knowing, Needs, Elixir

  Audrey Niffenegger (2009). “Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

  Jim Butcher

  Love, Two, People

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Pain, Fall

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Children, Coffee, Thinking

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “Olive Kitteridge”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

  Tennessee Williams

  Childhood, Together, Dolls

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.274, New Directions Publishing

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• The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

  Georges Bataille

  Real, Giving, Doe

  Georges Bataille (1989). “Theory of religion”, Zone Books (NY)

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• I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.

  Iris Murdoch

  Hate, Self, Soul

  "Under the Net".

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• 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

  Men, Joy, Texture

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1853, Dell

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• Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a best friend and losing a lover: it was all about intimacy. One moment, you had someone to share your biggest triumphs and fatal flaws with; the next minute, you had to keep them bottled inside. One moment, you'd start to call her to tell her a snippet of news or to vent about your awful day before realizing you did not have that right anymore; the next, you could not remember the digits of her phone number.

  Jodi Picoult

  Phones, Differences, Numbers

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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