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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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Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be th...

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There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the direc...

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No relationship is without its difficulties and this is certainly true when one or both of the perso...

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Daniel TammetBorn on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant

I wondered straightaway how he could sit at peace there, of an evening, with the row of heads starin...

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Daphne du MaurierEchoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean yo...

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It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entru...

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I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on ...

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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being aro...

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David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even ...

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Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to ...

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David SedarisDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disag...

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Dean KoontzA Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them t...

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It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. B...

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A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I k...

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I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probabl...

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I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...

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Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,Painter or plumber or never-do-well,Do me a favor and shut your fa...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Collected Dorothy Parker

I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I...

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The Heart of Gold fled on silently through the night of space, now on conventional photon drive. Its...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go wa...

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I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been a...

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I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult r...

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He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equa...

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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. An...

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E. M. ForsterWhere Angels Fear to Tread

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

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Edith HamiltonMythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Proclaim your pride and bitterness loudly to the world, but to me speak softly, and tell me simply t...

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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a...

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You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the wo...

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It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, h...

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People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people...

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What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if w...

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I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-...

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You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border o...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

One thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual ex...

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But it's easier to say 'I love you',than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.

I don't wanna be a lover,I just wanna be your victim.

So you take her to the pictures,trying to become a fixture.Inch by inch trying to reach her,all the ...

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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager ...

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Mine Enemy is growing old --I have at last Revenge --The Palate of the Hate departs --If any would a...

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What all the ads and whoreoscopes seemed to imply was that if only you were narcissistic enough, if ...

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Love is the active concern for the life and the growth of that which we love. Where this active conc...

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There is no guilt in feelings ever.

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up...

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Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodb...

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The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting ...

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Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & ...

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I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including ...

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Pride adversely affects all our relationships—our relationship with God and His servants, between hu...

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I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery ...

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why...

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I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think ot...

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If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t dist...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldTender is the Night & The Last Tycoon

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, a...

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By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. The...

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But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intellige...

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I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...

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Quand on parle des vices d’un homme, si on vous dit : “Tout le monde le dit” ne le croyez pas ; si l...

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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace ...

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Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's a...

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Fred RogersThe World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when y...

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Fred RogersYou Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you belie...

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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

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Gabriel García MárquezOne Hundred Years of Solitude

Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a...

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An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into...

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He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by follow...

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The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through th...

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When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his re...

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It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same ...

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his mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented hi...

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I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.