"All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious."

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Amy Bloom

#Intimacy Quotes

“It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.”

Source : "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.
“There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.”
“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.”
“I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.”
“Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.
“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”
“I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.”
“No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.”

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