"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."

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Source : Twitter post from Oct 30, 2013

Alain de Botton

#Relationship Quotes #Intimacy Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.”
“We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.”
“When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.”
“Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.”
“[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.”
“And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.”
“My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.”

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