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Intimacy
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“Intimacy is a difficult art ... ”
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“True intimacy is frightening, and I was well into my marriage before I realized that I either had to seek it or live a lie. Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.”
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“She resented the way in which he walked in and out of her mind as if it was his own flat.”
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“... instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.”
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“Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.”
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“We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate 'I's' into one worldview.”
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“Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.”
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“Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.”
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“In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.”
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“The genuine solitaries of life fear intimacy more than loneliness. The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”
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“Oh, it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son — did I tell you that when you were young?”