Relationships Quotes

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

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"You will not find me a very pleasant companion."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I simply cannot believe in your love for me"
Anna Karenina
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"He could not forgive her for existing"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"She was consumed by the desire for something she could never have"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"She had sacrificed everything for a moment of passion"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The ties that bind us can also strangle us"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of you."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"It is impossible to love a wife 'in the old way', if one has been deceived by her."
Karenin
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of"
Natasha Rostova
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"What is the use of talking when words cannot convey what must be felt?"
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"Love without trust is merely possession."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Connection is the antidote to emptiness."
Levin
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"Relationships require trust and honesty."
Natasha Rostova
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov
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"To love all men is to love none."
Ivan Karamazov
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"The heart of another is a dark forest."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"In love and war, the outcome is always uncertain, yet we venture forth anyway."
Don Quixote
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"The greatest gift one person can give another is genuine belief in their worth."
Sancho Panza
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"What thou art in relation to me"
Roger Chillingworth
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"I love humanity, but I am amazed at myself: the more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov
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"There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him."
Hester Prynne
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"Marriage seemed to her a lottery."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Love affairs were her currency of rebellion."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"He loved her all the more for her resistance."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had loved him because he loved her."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"He was incapable of understanding those delicacies of feeling."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"What do people talk about in these interludes of business?"
Jordan Baker
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"I want to know who you are."
Jay Gatsby
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"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It is precisely one's neighbors that one cannot love."
Ivan Karamazov
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"One can love one's neighbor in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it is almost impossible."
Ivan Karamazov