Relationships Quotes

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

20931 quotes

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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 love mankind, but I cannot endure people in the mass"
Ivan Karamazov
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"The heart of another is a dark forest, and always will be"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"Some people are worth it."
Yossarian
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"The relationships we form are the true wealth of our existence."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"One can love one's neighbor in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible"
Ivan Karamazov
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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 do love having pneumatic women."
Bernard Marx
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"I suppose Lenina's right. She usually is."
Bernard Marx
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"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors, I think, that one cannot love."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Modesty forbids...but we've all been happy with you."
Lenina Crowne
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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 want to be understood."
Yossarian
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Mother, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of impulse and energy."
Mustapha Mond
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"Pneumatic love is the only sort of love that works."
Lenina Crowne
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"The secret's in the breathless intimacy of the embrace."
Lenina Crowne
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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved, so much as to be understood."
Winston Smith
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
Natasha Rostova
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"I'm living in a state of shock. That's what one person does to another."
Yossarian
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"Mother, I don't want you. I don't want a mother."
John the Savage
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"One cannot be interested in just one person alone."
Lenina Crowne
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"I hate you. But I still want you to have the finest evening ever with me."
Lenina Crowne
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"We go together. We belong together."
Lenina Crowne
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"Do you see any signs of love here?"
Winston Smith
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"He loved her and would love her forever. But he also hated her. Why should that be?"
Winston Smith
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"We know that no one ever escapes this place. The choice between their love and their loyalty will always favor the Party."
O'Brien
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"I have never been able to understand how one can love one's neighbors"
Ivan Karamazov
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"I love you most of all because we are against them."
Julia
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"
Ivan Karamazov