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"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."
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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."
"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."
"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."
"Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation."
"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."
"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."
"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
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"We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong."
"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?"
"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again."
"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces."
"Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced."
"Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it."
"When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead."
"Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there."
"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned."
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