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The apartment is a laboratory in which we conduct experiments, perform research on each other. We di...

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Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

Black Mary: Leroy. And John. And Cujoe. And Sam. And Robert. One after the other they come and they ...

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When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

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One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is ...

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Ayn RandThe Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human bei...

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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be in...

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Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate...

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Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being,...

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Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with...

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The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to b...

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the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by pa...

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schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively.despite ...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Getting in touch with the lovelessness within and letting that lovelessness speak its pain is one wa...

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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintai...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not wo...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

All relationships have ups and downs. Romantic fantasy often nurtures the belief that difficulties a...

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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well...

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Bell hooksBreaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive...

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Bell hooksCommunion: The Female Search for Love

Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their re...

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None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intim...

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Bell hooksTeaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy GrahamHope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy GrahamHope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy GrahamHope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy GrahamHope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy Graham (wrestler)Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy Graham (wrestler)Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy Graham (wrestler)Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it wou...

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Billy Graham (wrestler)Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry h...

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Bram StokerThe New Annotated Dracula

Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting sati...

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Brandon SandersonThe Well of Ascension

Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is ...

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At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds...

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I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued;...

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When unconscious storytelling becomes out default, we often keep tripping over the same issue, stayi...

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When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I ...

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Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in whi...

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It's not your job to like me - it's mine

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult pe...

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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

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I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but tha...

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Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively invo...

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Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

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Carlo RovelliSeven Brief Lessons on Physics

If you ever have a daughter—a blessing I wouldn't wish on anyone, because it's Murphy's Law that soo...

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Suzanne sat in Roger's chair, staring at the reflection of her dread morning face. Roger browsed his...

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I thought you might supply some tendernessI lackedBut out of all the things I offered you took mybre...

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To make him important in one’s life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never kn...

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Carrie FisherThe Princess Diarist

Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd eve...

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She knew how breakups went from hearing other girls complain about them. First the pulling away, the...

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I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your l...

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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

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Cesare PaveseThe Burning Brand: Diaries

There is nothing worse than being broke and having your woman leave you. Nothing to drink, no job,ju...

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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand i...

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people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I ...

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Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, ...

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I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat ar...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man...

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It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very mu...

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She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her...

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The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city...

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatan...

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As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has ...

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They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself...

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But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single un...

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I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Pundits are always blaming TV for making people stupid, movies for desensitizing the world to violen...

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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to ...

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No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first t...

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there are indestructible things that accompany the body to death as if they had been born with it. A...

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Clarice LispectorNear to the Wild Heart

It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through ...

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Clarice LispectorNear to the Wild Heart

Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity som...

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Colleen McCulloughThe Ladies of Missalonghi

He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a ...

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We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is ...

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Cornel WestBreaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

..begin by talking about the kind of existentialist chaos that exists in our own lives and our inabi...

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Cornel WestBreaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he ...

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D. H. LawrenceSons and lovers. Lady Chatterley's lover

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unf...

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He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what y...

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No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the ...

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For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the c...

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