"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
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"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
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"Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person."
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"The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well."
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"I do like choral music a lot, the voice is a pretty strong instrument - out of all the instruments, it's the most intimate. There's nothing you can do about it, it just feels so good when you hear a bunch of voices sing together."
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"Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship"
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"There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends"
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"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand."
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"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate."
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"There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals."
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"I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films."
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"When I was young, I was very technical about these things. I didn't like to admit to any intimate relation with what I was writing."
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"Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one."
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"The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman."
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"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
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"By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others."
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"The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things."
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"Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation."
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"My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles."
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"Working with Ava [ DuVernay] and Oprah [Winfrey], they're just so intimate. I feel like we're really family at this point."
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