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• I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.

  Bill Forsyth

  Girl, Numbers, Would Be

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• This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Intimate Relationships, Literature, Treats

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Marriage, Being Yourself, Intimate Relationships

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• Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Home, Self

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• Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Girl, Secret, Skins

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• What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.

  Elizabeth George

  Peace, Prayer, Blessing

  Elizabeth George (2003). “Powerful Promises for Every Woman”, p.94, Harvest House Publishers

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• I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.

  Rachel Klein

  Sex, Boys, Men

  Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber

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• If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?

  Bill Johnson

  People, Ministry, Want

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• To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.

  Matthew Kelly

  Share, Aspect, Persons

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• Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

  Kathleen Norris

  Seven Years, May, Classic

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• A really free mind is scarcely attached to its opinions. If the mind cannot help giving birth to ... emotions and affections which at first appear to be inseparable from them, it reacts against these intimate phenomena it experiences against its will.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Mind, Firsts

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (p. 55), 1931.

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• The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Laughter, Facts, Reactions

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• This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

  Stanislav Grof

  Book, Unique, Blood

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• I don't think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.

  Tom Waits

  Thinking, Problem, Frank

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• Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

  Luis Barragan

  Men, Solitude, May

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• Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

  Harville Hendrix

  Marriage, Spiritual, Journey

  Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. (2007). “Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Couples”, p.42, Macmillan

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• Feel the wind. This wind blows from world to world and from life to death. This is the wind of dharma. Be in love with the wind. It is an intimate lover. It enraptures you. It blows you through eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Blow, Wind

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• Marriage is an intimate relationship between two people. It is a bad idea to involve a third party.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Party, Intimate Relationships

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• Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Hands, World

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson, p. 122, March 6, 1995.

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• All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

  Selima Hill

  Thinking, Poetry, Faces

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• I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Dream, Memories, Moving

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• If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.

  Rosellen Brown

  Wise, Book, Paris

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• Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Men, Intimate Relationships

  "The Wounded Healer". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1972.

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• The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  African Spir

  Real, Data, Principles

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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• We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great, the eternal principles of life and truth. The Lord wishes to establish a closer and more intimate relationship between Himself and us; He wishes to elevate us in the scale of being and intelligence, and this can only be done through the medium of the everlasting Gospel which is specially prepared for this purpose.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Opportunity, Intimate Relationships, Wish

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