#intimate

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. ↗

— Suzanne Vega

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No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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