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"In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances and never make friends. An acquaintance shows you only the best of himself, he's considerate and polite, he conceals his defects behind a mask of social convention; but we grow so intimate with him that he throws the mask aside, get to know him so well that he doesn't trouble any longer to pretend; then you'll discover a being of such meanness, of such trivial nature, of such weakness, of such corruption, that you'd be aghast if you didn't realize that that was his nature and it was just as stupid to condemn him as to condemn the wolf because he ravens or the cobra because he strikes."
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"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
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"Piper: it looks like we have hole. Percy: Yeah we've got a dam hole! (LOL-ing) Piper: What! Percy: Inside joke. (still LOL-ing) Piper: Whatever."
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"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."
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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
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"Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous."
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"Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you."
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"Be the person you would want to be friends with."
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"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
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"Some of my friends who know me best say they wouldn't trade places with me for $1 million because of the pace I lead."
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"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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"I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the manifold experience that it offers,wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishmentwhich does not absorb but rather adds pleasure toexistence. And as for posterity-damn posterity."
Creativity
"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."
Choice
"A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute."
Humor
"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."
Hope
"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"
Perception
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
People
"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
People
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."
Illusion
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