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“Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being?” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s an insult to me. I know about you.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.” Thomas Hardy, “Far from the Madding Crowd” - 1874

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender Is the Night” - 1934

“One can begin so many things with a new person! —even begin to be a better man.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.” George Bernard Shaw, “The Philanderer” - 1893

“The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“The years with Barbara taught me a great lesson: how having a good relationship can enrich your life.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story” - 2012

“The 70s are very empty When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.” Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” - 1975

“Relationship is understanding.” Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” - 1975

“Two separate beings, placed in different situations, confronting each other in their freedom, and seeking the justification of existence through each other, will always live an adventure full of risks and promises.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“Gail has said in interviews before that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.” Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” - 1989

“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“the only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there's no altering that.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.” Jane Austen, “Sense and Sensibility” - 1811

“She couldn’t be on his wavelength all the time. That’s all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.” Stephen King, “The Stand” - 1978

“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.” Bertrand Russell, “The Conquest of Happiness” - 1930

“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.” Thomas Hardy, “Jude the Obscure” - 1895

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