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"Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone."
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"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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"The best things to hold on to are the memories of friendship and love."
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"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."
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"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
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"I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance."
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"Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul."
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"They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked."
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"Sometimes you win friends, sometimes you lose friends. Both can help you to grow faster."
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"One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies."
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"After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household."
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"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
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"I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing."
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"I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss."
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"The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces."
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"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home."
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"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
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"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others."
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"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
Past
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