To really know someone
is to have loved
and hated him in turn.
?Marcel Jouhandeau
If one could be friendly with women,
what a pleasure -- the relationship
so secret and private compared
with relations with men. Why not
write about it truthfully?
?Virginia Woolf
I would venture to warn against too
great intimacy with artists as it is very
seductive and a little dangerous.
?Queen Victoria
INTIMACY, n.
A relation into which fools are providentially
drawn for their mutual destruction.
?Ambrose Bierce
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment,
in which each feels that the other is feeling
something, having once existed, its effect
is not to be done away with.
?George Eliot
Friends need not agree in everything or go
always together, or have no comparable
other friendships of the same intimacy.
On the contrary, in friendship union is more
about ideal things: and in that sense it
is more ideal and less subject to
trouble than marriage is.
?George Santayana
One may discover a new side to his most
intimate friend when for the first time
he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger
to him as he is more familiar to the audience.
The longest intimacy could not
foretell how he would behave then.
?Henry David Thoreau
