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Quotes About Intimacy

Some women's love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's licence to receive it.
~ Thomas Hardy
Let me look right into your moonlit face, and dwell on every line and curve in it!
~ Thomas Hardy
I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
~ Thomas Harris
He looked up and saw her and his breath stopped in his throat. His hands stopped too, still spread above the keyboard. Harpsichord notes do not carry, and in the sudden quiet of the drawing room they both heard him take his next breath.
~ Thomas Harris
Pachelbel's Canon filled the sun-drowned room where they learned each other and even then the fear flickered across him like an osprey's shadow: This is too good to live for long.
~ Thomas Harris
The intimacy of the detail - why The Silence of the Lambs is quite possibly the Thriller Writer's bible.
~ Thomas Harris
Molly was the same height as Graham, five feet ten inches. A level kiss in public carries a pleasant jolt, possibly because level kisses usually are exchanged in bed.
~ Thomas Harris
Graham loved the way she turned her head, artlessly giving him her less perfect profile. He could see the pulse in her throat, and remembered suddenly and completely the taste of salt on her skin.
~ Thomas Harris
Oh, Reba, I can't stand to watch you burn.
~ Thomas Harris
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
~ Thomas Jefferson
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
~ Thomas Mann
Strangely fruitful intercourse this, between one body and another mind
~ Thomas Mann
For happiness, he told himself, isn't being loved; that was just a slightly nauseous satisfaction of vanity. Happiness is loving and perhaps seizing a few short illusory moments of intimacy with the object of one's love.
~ Thomas Mann
No seu sorriso e na sua voz talvez transparecesse um pouco da emoção que se produz quando, depois de prolongadas relações mudas, se profere a primeira palavra; é uma emoção sutil que secretamente inclui o passado inteiro no momento presente.
~ Thomas Mann
Car lorsque les yeux parlent, ils tutoient, lors même que les lèvres n'ont pas encore prononcé un vous.
~ Thomas Mann
La cama es el lugar donde el amante se une a la amada, y se considera el símbolo del retiro contemplativo del mundo y de la criatura con objeto de encontrarse con Dios.
~ Thomas Mann
B?rbatul se îmbat? cu propria dorin??, iar femeia cere È™i aÈ™teapt? s? fie îmb?tat? de dorinÈ›a b?rbatului. De aici provine pentru noi obligaÈ›ia pasiunii, de aici decurge înfior?toarea ruÈ™ine a insensibilit??ii, a neputinÈ›ei de a trezi dorinÈ›a femeii.
~ Thomas Mann
Bo gdy mówiÄ… tylko oczy, rozmowa toczy siÄ™ przecie? na ty...
~ Thomas Mann
I get an odd, intimate, and amusing sensation from having him sit on my foot and warm it with the blood-heat of his body. A pervasive feeling of sympathy and good cheer fills me, as almost invariably when in his company and looking at things from his angle.
~ Thomas Mann
It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.
~ Thomas Merton
In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.
~ Thomas Merton
We discover our true selves in love.
~ Thomas Merton
Charity must teach us that friendship is a holy thing, and that it is neither charitable nor holy to base our friendship on falsehood. We can be, in some sense, friends to all men because there is no man on earth with whom we do not have something in common. But it would be false to treat too many men as intimate friends. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common.
~ Thomas Merton
It is not possible to be intimate with nore than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common. There is, however, one universal basis for friendship with all men: we are all loved by God, and I should desire them all to love Him with all their power. ... the truth remains that our destiny is to love one another as Christ has loved us.
~ Thomas Merton