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• It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

  Florence Welch

  People, Vulnerable, Grandeur

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• Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

  Amy Bloom

  Knowing Who You Are, Persons, Known

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• Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.

  Scot McKnight

  Spiritual, Jesus, Thinking

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• Deference and intimacy live far apart.

  Moliere

  Deference, Wooing

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• [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

  Anais Nin

  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Perfect, Gentleman, Enjoy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.127

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• Intimacy is a difficult art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Difficult

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.331, Lulu Press, Inc

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• instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

  May Sarton

  Instant, Disillusion

  May Sarton (2014). “A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

  William Shenstone

  Doe, Sensitive, Plant

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men, manners, and things. A description of The Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.207

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• Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

  William Shenstone

  Together, Woods, Fool

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.231

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• The etiquette of intimacy is very different from the etiquette of formality, but manners are not just something to show off to the outside world. If you offend the head waiter, you can always go to another restaurant. If you offend the person you live with, it's very cumbersome to switch to a different family.

  Judith Martin

  Family, Different, World

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• Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Character, Uniforms

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

  Freya Stark

  Animal, Technology, Thinking

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.

  Mary Harron

  Secret, Cameras, Lenses

  "Interview: The Bettie Page Story". Interview with Susie Bright, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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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 intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Character, Eye, World

  "Go Forth (Vol. 16)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. October 4, 2013.

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• To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

  George Sand

  Together, Meals, Satisfaction

  George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan”

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• The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Friendship, Party, Opportunity

  Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.100

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• Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

  Merle Shain

  Sex, Deep Love, Fire

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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• I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Marriage, Couple, Book

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• You know what I find amazing is within Christianity it is not uncommon to find [married] people who don't have sexual intimacy, don't have emotional intimacy, don't have spiritual intimacy, don't pray together, don't do their life together, don't put their schedules together, don't put their budgets together, but they don't get divorced. So they can pat themselves on the back and say, 'We're good Christians.' They're divorced in everything but the paperwork.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Spiritual, Emotional

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• In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

  Nancy Friday

  Baby, Forever, Soul

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• After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

  Nancy Friday

  Sex, Fall, Men

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• A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Children, Suffering, Firsts

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”

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• Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).

  Rebecca Solnit

  Communication, Technology, Phones

  Rebecca Solnit (2014). “The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness”, p.258, Trinity University Press

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• It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.

  Laura Furman

  Dream, Reading, Able

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