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Relationship Quotes
"As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other."
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"What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me."
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"They disagreed always about this, but it did not matter. She liked him to believe in scholarships, and he liked her to be proud of Andrew whatever he did."
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"When both partners strive for a marriage that honours and pleases God, they can be assured of an everlasting joy and peace."
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"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave."
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"Loving someone doesn't just include that person, Ben. Loving someone means accepting all the things and people that person loves, too. And I will. I do. I promise."
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"One can't love humanity. One can only love people."
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"Will put his hand on Nico's shoulder. 'Nico, we need to have another talk about your people skills.''Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. If this is Apollo, and he dies, we're all in trouble.'Will turned to me. 'I apologize for my boyfriend.'Nico rolled his eyes. 'Could you not-''Would you prefer special guy?' Will asked. 'Or significant other?''Significant annoyance, in your case,' Nico grumbled."
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"But a good wife-a good unworldly woman-may really help a man, and keep him more independent."
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"There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't have to prove anything. In fact you can afford a little neglect, indulge in a little bit of sarcasm here and there, isolate yourself when you want to. Underneath it's concrete for life. I'm a cow in some ways, but you're an idiot."
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"I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love."
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"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
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"Once someone learns what a relationship comes to teach, the relationship can move on to make room for new teachers to come in with new lessons and new levels of love."
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"Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she's fifty."
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"The relationship between a guy and a girl naturally becomes more intimate as they spend time together."
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"There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -""I am desolated!""That's a good boy!"
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"Just remember, there's not a lot of softness in his life, or room for weakness-of which you're definitely one. He has absolutely no idea what to do with you, and as an action guy, that's confusing to him. So maybe think about taking it easy on him. Even just a little bit."
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"Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?"
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"We the mortals touch the metals,the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,knowing they will go on, inert or burning,and I was discovering, naming all the these things:it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
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"He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?" "Like what?""Like hitting on you.""Ew. No, of course not. He doesn't see me that way." Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee."What? You think he does?""Sometimes he looks at you a little... oddly, that's all. Maybe you're right. Maybe he just wants you for your blood.""Again, Ew! What's with you this morning?""Not enough coffee."
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"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince."So that I may forget," replied the tippler."Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him."Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head."Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him."Ashamed of drinking!"
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"You can't say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person's complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup."
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"I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so."
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"Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights."
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"Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike."
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"At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?""No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God!"
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"A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved."
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"The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control."
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"The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman."
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"Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be."
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"Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)."
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"I guess when you're trying to find all the parts of yourself, it's difficult to be with someone who's already fully intact."
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"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."
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"When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a powerful beacon."
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"No human relation gives one possession in another-every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."
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"I was always thinking in terms of too much or not enough, rarely allowing myself that crucial space in between. Except when he was around. Except when we were really together. Then I could forget-I couldn't turn it off, but I could forget to turn it on. Gradually, the columns began to tip. I lost track of keeping track. In order to let us be, I let myself be."
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"I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple."
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"But love, don't we all talk a great deal of nonsense about it? What does one mean? ... It's only a story one makes up in one's mind about another person, and one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows; why, one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion."
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"To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once."
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"I like your mind when it plays with mine. We harmonize, like a dirty sweet symphony."
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"As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage."
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"We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox."
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"I had come to the conclusion that everyone took sex far too seriously. I mean, it's only sex."
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"I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics."
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"The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle."
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"Friends ask you questions, enemies question you."
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"Estragon: You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone, too.Vladmir: Then why do you always come crawling back?Estragon: I don't know."
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"Two people who know they do not understand each other, breeding children whom they do not understand and who will never understand them."
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"When one becomes accustomed to 'companionship' without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another."
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"Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet."
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