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Quotes About Relationship

Y haciéndole sentar al borde del lecho, empezaba a hablarle de sus penas. El la olvidaba... Amaba a otra... Ya le habíand dicho que sería desgraciada. Y acababa pidiéndole algún jarabe para su salud y un poco más de amor.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Mais, à mesure que se serrait davantage l'intimité de leur vie, un détachement se faisait qui la déliait de lui.
~ Gustave Flaubert
s'était tant de fois entendu dire ces choses, qu'elles n'avaient pour lui rien d'original. Emma ressemblait à toutes les maîtresses ; et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêtement, laissait voir à nu l'éternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les mêmes formes et le même langage.
~ Gustave Flaubert
perdre, quand, au contraire, elle avouait pour lui plus d'amour que jamais
~ Gustave Flaubert
This man could teach you nothing; he knew nothing, he wished for nothing. He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought to him.
~ Gustave Flaubert
They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.
~ Guy de Maupassant
This was the first living creature I had ever loved passionately, because he returned my affection. My love for the animal was, no doubt, exaggerated and ridiculous.I has a vague idea that in some way we were brothers, both lost in life, both lonely and defenseless. He never left me,slept at foot of my bed, was fed in the dining-room in spite of my parents' protests and he came with me on my solitary walks.
~ Guy de Maupassant
But she shook with rage, and got up one of those conjugal scenes which make a peaceable man dread the domestic hearth more than a battlefield where bullets are raining.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Elle aussi l'avait trouvé gentil ; et c'est uniquement pour cela qu'elle s'était donnée, liée pour la vie, qu'elle avait renoncé à toute autre espérance, à tous les projets entrevus, à tout l'inconnu de demain. Elle était tombée dans le mariage, dans ce trou sans bord pour remonter dans cette misère, dans cette tristesse, dans ce désespoir, parceque, comme Rosalie, elle l'avait trouvé gentil!
~ Guy de Maupassant
And each day a friendly intercourse was established between the working-women of the pavement and the idlers of the boarding school.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Iat?, la urma urmei, singurul lucru bun în via??: iubirea.S? È›ii în braÈ›e o femeie îndr?git?.Asta e marginea fericirii omeneÈ™ti!
~ Guy de Maupassant
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
~ H.L. Mencken
Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
~ H.L. Mencken
Between the phantasms of nightmare and the realities of the objective world a monstrous and unthinkable relationship was crystallising, and only stupendous vigilance could avert still more direful developments.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.
~ H.W. Brands
relationship. Anyone who resented us being together could tattle on us. The world is never lacking in defenders of morality
~ Ha Jin
Her words made him realize that his wife must have been lonely when he was away. He hadn't thought she had her own ideas and feelings. More worrisome, she never doubted that they would stay together for the rest of their lives. What a simple-hearted woman! This realization distressed him and foiled his first attempt at a divorce.
~ Ha Jin
The weaving of life between mother and daughter is just like the making of a basket. As time goes by, the interlacing takes shape and becomes stronger.
~ Haley Elizabeth Garwood
be there is the first step, and recognizing the presence of the other is the second step. To love is to recognize; to be loved is to be recognized by the other.
~ Hanh Nhat Thich
You know, when you end a relationship and say you fell out of love, you actually mean you were never really in love. The past is a river, not a statue.
~ Hanif Kureishi
At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Marriage domesticates sex but frees love. It is unsuitable as a solution to human need, but as with capitalism, the alternatives are much worse.
~ Hanif Kureishi
What was marriage but sex plus property.
~ Hanif Kureishi
However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity in his eyes, and in the way he tried to smile - such innocence in the way he wanted to understand me, and such possibility of pain, along with the implicit assumption that he wouldn't be harmed - that I pulled away.
~ Hanif Kureishi