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Quotes About Intimacy

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?
~ George Orwell
The more men you've had, the more I love you.
~ George Orwell
The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately.
~ George Orwell
Listen. The more men you've had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?
~ George Orwell
To turn his head and look at her would have been inconceivable folly. With hands locked together, invisible among the press of bodies, they stared steadily in front of them, and instead of the eyes of the girl, the eyes of the aged prisoner gazed mournfully at Winston out of nests of hair.
~ George Orwell
O'Brien lo había torturado casi hasta enloquecerlo y era seguro que dentro de un rato le haría matar. Pero no importaba. En cierto sentido, más allá de la amistad, eran íntimos
~ George Orwell
As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what was strange was that even when she was clasping him against her he had the feeling that she was simultaneously pushing him away with all her strength.
~ George Orwell
She sat against him, putting her arm round his
~ George Orwell
Queer, the affection you can feel for a stranger! It was as though his spirit and mine had momentarily succeeded in bridging the gulf of language and tradition and meeting in utter intimacy. I hoped he liked me as well as I liked him. But I also knew that to retain my first impression of him I must not see him again; and needless to say I never did see him again.
~ George Orwell
She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt he had the right to
~ George Orwell
There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy.
~ George Orwell
Very early in her married life he had decided — though perhaps it was only that he knew her more intimately than he knew most people — that she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. 'The human sound-track' he nicknamed her in his own mind.
~ George Orwell
There was a direct, intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For
~ George Orwell
Bir kad?nla on beÅŸ y?ld?r ya??yorsan?z onsuz bir hayat? düÅŸünemez hale gelirsiniz. Dünyan?z?n bir parças?d?r o. Diyelim ki güneÅŸin veya ay?n baz? özellikleri hoÅŸunuza gitmiyor; onlar? yine de gerçekten deÄŸiÅŸtirmek ister misiniz?
~ George Orwell
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
~ George Sand
I have plenty of friends, she says. Name one. She looks at me. Which I guess is sort of sweet.
~ George Saunders
Two passing temporarinesses developed feelings for one another. Two puffs of smoke became mutually fond.
~ George Saunders
And then she kissed me with a kiss I can only describe as melting
~ George Saunders
We were all over each other in the super-friendly way of puppies, or spouses meeting for the first time after one of them has undergone a close brush with death.
~ George Saunders
We were allowed to lie there, limbs intermingled, for nearly an hour. It was bliss. It was perfection. It was that impossible thing; happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
~ George Saunders
She came to him now, stumbling a bit on a swell in the floor of this stranger's house.
~ George Saunders
El orgasmo concorde (probablemente raro) es lo más cercano que hay en la experiencia humana a la abolición del yo
~ George Steiner
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough
~ George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
~ George Washington