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Quotes About Intimacy

How many faces, how many bodies can you recognize, with your eyes closed, only by touching them? Have you ever closed your eyes and acted unconsciously? Or loved someone so blindly, you could almost feel their energy in a dark room and be moved by the powerful touch of their ideas?
~ Jean Baudrillard
Boone already felt in his bones that if he ever got his hands on Maddie, once would never be enough.
~ Jean Brashear
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
~ Jean Cocteau
Love and friendship exclude each other.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
~ Jean Genet
Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly.
~ Jean Genet
My love is always sad."' "That's right. As soon as I kiss you, you get sad. I've noticed it." "Does it bother you?" "No, it doesn't matter. I'm happy instead of you. I murmur to myself I love you... I love you... I love you...
~ Jean Genet
I love you as if you were in my belly. You're not my sweetheart, you're myself. My heart or my sex. A branch of me.
~ Jean Genet
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all
~ Jean Genet
It was therefore natural for me to imagine what his penis would be if he smeared it for my benefit with so fine a substance, with that precious cobweb, a tissue which I secretly called the veil of the palace.
~ Jean Genet
I worship him. When I see him lying naked, I feel like saying mass on his chest.
~ Jean Genet
It pleased Culafroy that the nobility belonged to Ernestine rather than to himself, and in this trait we may already see a sign of his destiny. To be able to approach her, to enjoy her intimacy, her special favors, was agreeable to him, just as many persons are more pleased to be the favorite of a prince than the prince himself, or a priest of a god than the god, this way they can receive Grace.
~ Jean Genet
Divine s'offrait à la nuit afin d'être dévorée de tendresse par elle et jamais plus vomie
~ Jean Genet
AINSI JE RESTE SEUL, oublié de lui qui dort dans mes bras. La mer est calme. Je n'ose bouger. Sa présence serait plus terrible que son voyage hors de moi. Peut­ être vomirait-il sur ma poitrine. Et qu'y pourrais-je faire ? Trier ses vomissures ? y chercher parmi le vin, la viande, la bile, ces violettes et ces roses qu'y délayent et délient les filets de sang ?
~ Jean Genet
Un mâle qui en baise un autre est un double mâle
~ Jean Genet
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.
~ Jean Genet
They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.
~ Jean Genet
on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
~ Jean Genet
She listened; she heard the dull thumping of her blood which seemed to be tramping on her with a heavy heel.    She passed her left hand across the night to feel the man's firm wrist, which was against her right hand. It was all knotted like a gnarled branch. It filled her left hand with warm flesh which was supple and finely nerved.    "I can't explain....They all have their women. Such a passion has seized the earth...such a passion!" 
~ Jean Giono
The pain between them at this moment is more intimate than anything that has come before. It is also, incidentally, more intimate than anything she has shared with her fiancé. It is devastating.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
I'll tell you," says Oliver, "when I know you better.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz