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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
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"Unfailing friends are essential, when 'presence' and 'absence' are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable allies can shore us up and since we are our best ally, we first have got to make sure we get along well with ourselves. ("Being my best friend)."

"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."

"Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never."

"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."

"Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies-loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt-every time they come around."

"A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all."

"After all we have few friends, if we don't show that we care about them, we will reach 0 friends..."

"Hey, he's awesome. A little unstable, but awesome. We got along great." Adrian opened the door to the building we were seeking. "And he's a badass in his way too. I mean, any other guy who wore scarves like that? He'd be laughed out of this school. Not Abe. He'd beat someone almost as badly as you would. In fact..." Adrian's voice turned nervous. I gave him a surprised look."In fact what?""Well...Abe said he liked me. But he also made it clear what he'd do to me if I ever hurt you or did anything bad." Adrian grimaced. "In fact, he described what he'd do in very graphic detail. Then, just like that, he switched to some random, happy topic. I like the guy, but he's scary."

"Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship."

"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."
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"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."

"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."

"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."

"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."

"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."

"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language."
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