Relationships Quotes

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

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"We are all bound together by invisible threads of responsibility"
Sonya
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"The monotony of marriage is death by a thousand small betrayals"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She sought in others what she had lost in herself"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"What is marriage but a prolonged farewell to one's former self?"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Adultery seemed the only honest thing left in her life"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had loved too many men and none of them well"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Rich, deep sighs, as though she wanted to tell something and had given up."
Nick Carraway
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"Her husband and her lover!"
Tom Buchanan
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"What did you do, Nick?"
Jay Gatsby
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov
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"I am tormented by my love of humanity."
Ivan Karamazov
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"She could not reconcile the man she wanted with the one before her"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"If you could only know how much I need you now."
Sonya
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"What's the matter? You look all worried."
Daisy Buchanan
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"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
Nick Carraway
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"The heart has its own logic that reason knows nothing of."
Natasha Rostova
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"She married without love and loved without marriage."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Raskolnikov
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"I love mankind, but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov
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"How strange is the effect of similarity upon the human heart!"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"What is marriage but a trap for the unwary?"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Jay Gatsby
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"What's eating you, anyway? Did you have a row with Daisy?"
Tom Buchanan
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Marriage is a practical arrangement, nothing more."
Charles Bovary
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"He loved her as one loves a possession, not a person."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"He mistook silence for agreement."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Pity is often mistaken for love."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Jay Gatsby
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"I wouldn't ask too much of her."
Tom Buchanan