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"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
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"When you share your moments of joy with friends, that memory lasts forever."

"A true friend is a person that will shout at you when you're wrong, hold your hand when you fall down, dance with you during the good times, and stay with you during your ups and downs."

"With your, love touch someone's heart, feel their soul, enjoy their bliss, share your joy, and then become their friend."

"A best friend is someone that will stand in your storm and tell you the lightening is beautiful just to make you realize that your heart was worth getting soaked."

"Friendship is not about ships-no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is."

"Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you."

"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."

"A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days."

"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."

"There's no point in defending camp if you guys die. All our friends are here."
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"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"

"The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so."

"To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe."

"Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself."

"Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts."

"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious."

"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head."

"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
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