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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

William Blake, English Poet

Friendship, Friend, Enemy, Trying

"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Friendship, Affection, Friends, Will

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Friendship, Recognition, Connection, Isolation

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Friendship, Friend, Courage, Service

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Friendship, Books, Experience, Memory

"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

John Green, American Author

Friendship, Friend, Story, Listening, Experience

"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Friendship, Friend, Baby

"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."

John Green, American Author

Friendship, Truth, Comfort, Connection

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

Mary Wortley Montagu, English Writer

Friendship, Peace, Friend, Conscience, Mind

"Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Friendship, Happiness, Choice, Relationship

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"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

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"Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation."

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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."

"This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny."

"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."

"That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."

"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."

"Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands."

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

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"We never live, we are always in the expectation of living."

"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

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"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow."

"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

"Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation."