Relationships Quotes

Connection, conflict, and everything in between. What our bonds with others teach us about ourselves.

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"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
Oscar Wilde
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
Oscar Wilde
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"Her eyes seemed to regard him with a kind of pitying wonder and pity."
James Joyce
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"Whatever our souls are made of, mine and yours are the same."
Anne Brontë
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"The deepest form of communication transcends words entirely."
Anne Brontë
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"The marriage of convenience often outlasts the marriage of passion."
Thomas Hardy
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"To love is to have power over another's happiness."
George Eliot
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"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."
George Eliot
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"Bitter as the venom of a spitting cobra is the consciousness of having wronged one you love."
Emily Brontë
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"We are shaped by those we love and those we lose."
Emily Brontë
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"The harshest judgments come from those we love most."
Emily Brontë
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"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
William Butler Yeats
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"Some women are flirts in fact as well as in word; they are taken by slight attentions, and it is difficult to obtain favors from them."
William Butler Yeats
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"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages: first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
William Butler Yeats
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Charlotte Brontë
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"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
Oscar Wilde
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
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"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
Oscar Wilde
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
Oscar Wilde
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"The greatest gift is to be understood by another soul."
Anne Brontë
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"The human soul craves authenticity and genuine connection."
Anne Brontë
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"I value the company of those who challenge me to be better."
Anne Brontë
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"Every relationship teaches us something."
Emily Brontë
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"The human heart contains multitudes of contradictory desires and fears."
Thomas Hardy
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"We desire most what we cannot have or have already lost."
Thomas Hardy
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"A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts."
George Eliot
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"We cannot live near each other and not develop strong attachments."
George Eliot
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"Every life touches countless other lives in ways we never realize."
George Eliot
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"In connection with others, we find our true self."
George Eliot
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"Nothing is good or bad but by company"
Charles Dickens