Relationships Quotes

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

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"Distance does not diminish genuine affection."
Natasha Rostova
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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
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"The heart of another is a dark forest."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I had mated with millions; it was, so to speak, inconceivable."
Lenina Crowne
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"I just can't seem to get her out of my mind."
Billy Bibbit
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"Do not count on me. I would give you away tomorrow."
Julia
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"I betrayed you, and you betrayed me."
Winston Smith
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Talking about his mother"
John the Savage
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"Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain."
John the Savage
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"Everyone who loves me is either dead or very ill."
Yossarian
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"One can love one's neighbor in the abstract, but rarely in reality"
Ivan Karamazov
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"Frailty, thy name is woman"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"How can we love anyone we don't know?"
John the Savage
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"It's not they I don't like, it's the liking itself."
John the Savage
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"I don't care if it's a sad goodbye or a bad goodbye, but when I leave a place I like to say goodbye to it."
Holden Caulfield
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"That's the thing I like least about girls. The way they always think you're a sex maniac."
Holden Caulfield
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"She really did drive me crazy sometimes."
Holden Caulfield
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"I love you. But I love you as I should love the World Controller - with all my heart and all my soul."
Lenina Crowne
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"That's the thing about girls."
Holden Caulfield
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"God, I miss everybody I ever knew."
Holden Caulfield
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"That's the thing I like about you. You're very sensible, in some ways."
Sally Hayes
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"I have to have a certain kind of girl to go out with."
Holden Caulfield
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"Girls are funny creatures, really."
Holden Caulfield
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"I had mated with so many men that I had lost count."
Lenina Crowne
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"Come, little lover!"
Lenina Crowne
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"I'm quite the sex maniac, in my own way."
Holden Caulfield
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"I'm very much the sex maniac, in my own special way."
Holden Caulfield
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"Her English was terrible, but she always had that pleased expression on her face."
Holden Caulfield
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"It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody"
Holden Caulfield