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"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
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"When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever."
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"A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs."
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"With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend."
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"Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides."
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"I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends."
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"A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked."
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"And say my glory was I had such friends."
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"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."
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"Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you."
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"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
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"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning

"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now

"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading

"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."
Genius

"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth

"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
Happiness

"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism

"When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be."
Love

"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."
Opportunity

"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
Friendship
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