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Philosophical literature

When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally!

Charles Sanders Peirce

1966

★ 1.7

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

★ 1.9

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise · 1920

★ 2.2

The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1819

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

1933

★ 3.5

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

1963

★ 3.5

Film · Road movie · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.

Almost Famous · 2000

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

Before Sunset · 2004

★ 3.6

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal.

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage · 2013

★ 3.6

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: "Because it was he; because it was me."

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

Another’s soul is a dark forest.

1850

★ 3.7

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

1862

★ 3.7

Novel · Coming of age story

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 1999

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

You know that moment when you look into somebody's eyes and you can feel them staring into your soul and the whole world goes quiet just for a second?

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life, were you alone?... Life's better with company.

Up in the Air · 2009

★ 3.8

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.

Sense and Sensibility · 1811

★ 3.9

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.9

Film · Animation (film) · Animation

And I look at you, and I...I'm home.

Finding Nemo · 2003

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

With thee conversing I forget all time.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person-having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

1859

★ 5.2

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