Claudia Cardinale Quotes

Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine.

Lovers should also have their days off.

My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.

It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

I wouldn't want to be in a relationship where I'm not even free to be myself.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

I think it's good if a man gives a woman some time to herself because I think we all need that and we can all benefit from that. It doesn't imply a rejection of the other person, just a sense that because we do have our separate identities, sometimes you have to be less involved in another person's life or need to have that other person be less involved in your life.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.