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• This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Intimate Relationships, Literature, Treats

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Marriage, Being Yourself, Intimate Relationships

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• Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Home, Self

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• Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Girl, Secret, Skins

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• The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Laughter, Facts, Reactions

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• This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of the recesses of the human psyche. By masterful juxtaposition of evocative images, poetry, and selected quotes from scholars, Flesh and Blood seems to engage both the right and left hemispheres in an unprecedented dialogue. The result is a multi-dimensional, almost holographic picture of the primordial foundations of the human mind.

  Stanislav Grof

  Book, Unique, Blood

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• Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

  Tom Robbins

  Home, Fire, Volcanoes

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Giving, Available, I Can

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• It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Feels

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• Whenever anyone grows tired of the secondhand sort of existence that depends on purchased products, and wants to resume the intimate relationship with nature that man once enjoyed, the kukui-nut stands ready to furnish him with food, flavor, tannin, oil, paint, varnish, medicine, and magic.

  Euell Gibbons

  Tired, Men, Intimate Relationships

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• I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of me. I believe that being that close to the animal makes a huge difference in the photographers ability to reveal its personality. You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

  Nick Brandt

  Real, Believe, Moving

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• Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Eye, Way, Contact

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• Above all else, we seek connection - with parts of ourselves that we have repressed, with other people, and with the larger universe. We cannot experience life in its fullness unless we have an intimate relationship with another human being and, beyond that, a feeling of connection with the world around us.

  Harville Hendrix

  Intimate Relationships, People, Feelings

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• Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Intimate Relationships, Intimate Relationship With God, Dare

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, Harper Collins

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• My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa “At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.

  Frantz Fanon

  Self, African Tribes, Fearless

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• A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

  Carroll Quigley

  Intimate Relationships, Community, Groups

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• I try always to intimate with the world… with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.

  Gabriel Orozco

  Fearless, Trying, World

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• When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

  Ronnie Wood

  Spiritual, Real, Painting

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• When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Intimate Relationships, Self

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desires—for food and sex—is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Art, Sex, Powerful

  Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.182, North Atlantic Books

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• It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Our World, Voice

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Life of the Beloved”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Men, People

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.111, Fig

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• The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Mean, Men, Knowledge Of God

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• Parks and gardens are the quintessential intimate landscapes. People use them all the time, leaving their energy and memories behind. It's what's left behind that I like to photograph.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Memories, Garden

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• All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

  Peter De Vries

  Couple, Bears, Intimacy

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.26, Open Road Media

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