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Quotes About Intimacy

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
~ Unknown
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
~ W Somerset Maugham
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
~ Thomas Moore
How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
~ Unknown
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
~ James Baldwin
Love is you; you and me.
~ John Lennon
It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
~ George McDonald
Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
At last I know what love is really like.
~ Virgil
Love alone could waken love.
~ Unknown
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name.
~ John Donne
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
~ Victor Hugo
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
~ Mark Twain
Young love is two hearts with only one thing in mind.
~ Keira Knightley
I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
~ Unknown
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
~ Pablo Neruda
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In love there are two things -- bodies and words.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
~ Unknown
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
~ Jules Renard
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
~ James Joyce
There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld