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"I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need."
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"Walk with me for a while, my friend-you in my shoes, I in yours-and then let us talk."
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"This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam."
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"Sure. You want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive. But a relationship is like a bridge where you meet other people half-way. That means if you want to be touched, inspired and made to feel alive, you have to be touching, inspiring and bring the fire of your aliveness to the union of your companionship."
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"Us is my favorite people."
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"Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?"He smiled at me. "Go to sleep."I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?"His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd...do anything."
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"It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God."
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"To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off."
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"Andrea raised her hand. "This is the hand that slapped Aunt B."Maybe you should have it gold-plated."Here, you can touch it, since you're my best friend."
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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position, it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."
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"Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn't worth a dime if you aren't sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world."
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model."
Creativity
"Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work."
Love
"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."
Passion
"Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes."
Patience
"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."
Love
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
Art
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Art
"Where friendship blooms, life is reborn."
Friendship
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."
Emotion
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures."
Nature
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