Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade. . . I live in great density. . . Shelter lures me. I slump down into the thick foliage. . . In the forest, I am my entire self. Everything is possible in my heart just as it is in the hiding places in ravines. Thickly wooded distance separates me from moral codes and cities.
there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.
Love a friend, love a wife, something, whatever you like, but one must love with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better, and more.
Sloppy Firsts perfectly captures the turbulent roller-coaster ride that is being a teenager. This is an (at times) intimate, painfully honest peek at a girl's coming of age. Getting to know Jessica was like meeting a new best friend. I miss her already.
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.
A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.
To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.
The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.
There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.
But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?