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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."
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"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times."

"Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it."

"Friendship is a gift forever;Cherish everyday, forget it never"

"Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time."

"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."

"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

"A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you're in gutter."

"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

"A good friend is someone who can love you like a dog and talk to you like a human."

"The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love."
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"I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat."

"At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless."

"Symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality."

"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."

"At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice does not pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer."

"Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct."

"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."
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