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Jean Cocteau

"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."

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

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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

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"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."

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"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

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

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"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."

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"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."

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"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."

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"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."

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

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