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Relationship Quotes
"I miss talking to her and talking to her used to make me feel alive."
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"The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships."
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"Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self."
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"Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke."
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"If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why."
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"Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship."
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"My husband would not give me an opportunity for worship. That was his greatness. They are cowards who claim absolute devotion from their wives as their right, that is a humiliation for both."
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"Fletcher was always going to be your ex-boyfriend, from the moment you met him. He's just finally caught up with where he's supposed to be."
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"Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases."
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"Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers."
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"Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it."
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"Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness."
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"Trust is always a good idea. For someone else."
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"To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone."
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"I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street."
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"I've found a new kind of home in us, and I'm ready to move in for good."
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"I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it. My problem is that buried box is like a scab I can't stop picking at."
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"The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did."
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"And what do you believe?A slow smile spread over his face. "I believe in you. You are my new beginning."
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"She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male."
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"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
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"I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler."
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"Love is like the wild rose-briar;Friendship like the holly-tree.The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,But which will bloom most constantly?The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring,Its summer blossoms scent the air;Yet wait till winter comes again,And who will call the wild-briar fair?Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now,And deck thee with holly's sheen,That, when December blights thy brow,He still may leave thy garland green."
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"Do not turn me intorestless watersif you cannot promiseto be my stream."
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"Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful."
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"There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect."
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"My phone buzzes. It's from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won't be needing. -a) Hi. I'm Zuzana. I'm actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? -b) Hi. I'm Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayin'. -c) Hi. I'm Zuzana. I think I might like you."
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"France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America.""
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"Love begins with the stage of subconscious primitive lust and attraction. I'm saying primitive because at this very early stage there is really no difference between primitive man and modern man."
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"And when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help."
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"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you..."
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"Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less."
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"Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth."
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"People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that."
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"As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone."
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"Lovers should also have their days off."
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"I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist."
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"A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended."
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"You have family, only a brother you clearly don't like to speak about. Fine. That's all right.' She ran her fingers through her hair. 'But don't ever say dreams are a waste. It's a miracle I can still speak of dreams and futures after all I've been through. There's love in this world, Thristan, love that can encompass the heart abiding in humans' mortal, fragile bodies. And there are stupid little humans like me, dreamers, who believe one day they'll find it."
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"If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours."
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"The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform."
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"Control and manipulation are not love, the outcome is a life of imprisonment ultimately leading to deep-rooted feelings of resentment."
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"The root systems of these lies we tell ourselves tend to grow together. It's all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn't conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love."
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"Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust."
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"We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit either in business or reputation improves even their personal appearance in our eyes."
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"We don't hate what we once loved but we decided to take some time off and it was eternal."
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"People will come and go in your life and only few of them will become Immortal in your heart."
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"When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced."
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"Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn't that all that matters?"
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