Intimacy proverbs

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◆ Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

- Barbara Cartland98

◆ My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.

- Andrew Davidson98

◆ You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.

- Hanif Kureishi98

◆ True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

- Michael Bassey Johnson98

◆ We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.

- Richard Brautigan98

◆ When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.

- Ian McEwan98

◆ Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.

- Jaachynma N.E. Agu98

◆ The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.

- Peter Hessler98

◆ Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?

- E.M. Forster98

◆ Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

- Anatole Broyard98

◆ There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

- Tony Horwitz98

◆ Mo?da se nijedna druga vrsta intimnosti ne mo?e uporediti sa dva polgeda koja se susre?u sa istom sigurno??u i odlu?no??u i jednostavno??u odbijaju da se puste.

- Jostein Gaarder98

◆ For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

- Gaston Bachelard98

◆ ...they knew each other as much as they knew themselves, and their intimacy, rather like too many suitcases, was a matter of perpetual concern; together they moved slowly, clumsily, effecting lugubrious compromises, attending to delicate shifts of mood, repairing breaches. As individuals they didn't easily take offense; but together they managed to offend each other in surprising, unexpected ways; then the offender - it had happened twice since their arrival - became irritated by the cloying susceptibilities of the other, and they would continue to explore the twisting alleyways and sudden squares in silence, and with each step the city would recede as they locked tighter into each other's presence.

- Ian McEwan98

◆ Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

- Malcolm Bradbury98