• People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You c

  

  Thomas Paine

  EducatorEnglish1737 · 18th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 41 reads

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• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.8 · 10 votes · 118 reads

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• Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 116 reads

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• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 30 votes · 96 reads

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• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.8 · 55 votes · 81 reads

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• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.3 · 41 votes · 141 reads

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• Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 19 reads

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• We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 116 reads

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• You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 151 reads

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