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"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
"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."
"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
"And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling, the question should never be: 'Do I like that kind of service?' but 'Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?"
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"
"If after all men cannot always make history have a meaning they can always act so that their own lives have one."
"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
"It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend."
"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool."
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