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Our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
Narcissus and Goldmund
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
But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
After Dark
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
Encounter
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays