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“A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (“A thousand times”)”

People Understanding Oneness Wilderness Single Touch Road Sense Impediments Inner World Complicity Mental Disorder Times Never Ever Propinquity Vein Barricade Obdurate

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“To my own free will the free will of my neighbour is just as indifferent as his poor breath and flesh. For though we are made especially for the sake of one another, still the ruling power of each of us has its own office, for otherwise my neighbour's wickedness would be my harm, which God has not willed in order that my unhappiness may not depend on another.”

Friendship Attitude Perspective Camaraderie Rapport Propinquity

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.”

Wisdom Felt Loneliness Lonely Communicate Being Alone Feeling Lonely Being Lonely Loneliness And Solitude I Am Lonely Lonely Feeling Lonely Heart I Feel Lonely Propinquity

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.”

Needs Kind Born Notion Propinquity

Book:Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

“The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.”

Made Sides Space Marriage Substance Day To Day Woven Day To Day Living Propinquity

Book:Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

Source: Wisdom from Gift from the Sea

“I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.”

Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems

“But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.”

Long Enough Character Stories Plot Propinquity

Author:Keith Miller

“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”

Light Form Darkness Position Painting Concerned Sight Distance Colour Attributes Darkness To Light Solidity Propinquity

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.”

Thinking Love Humans Persons Human Beings Style Burden Cramps Propinquity

Author:Quentin Crisp

“A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.”

Giving Persons Doe Causes Activity Mere Criminals Probable Cause Propinquity

Author:Potter Stewart