Friendship

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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

How to Win Friends and Influence People
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Narcissus and Goldmund
A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

A Wild Sheep Chase
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

After the Quake
Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

Dance Dance Dance
Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

1Q84
But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

After Dark
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