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“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will not be out of the other's...” Plato, Symposium
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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