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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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"I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing."
Hope

"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
Past

"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."
Father

"The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people."
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"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
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"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
Learning

"I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss."
Music

"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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"During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity."
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"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."
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"A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days."
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"True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks."
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"You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find."
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"To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony."
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"Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the rest behind, one after another. It seems almost like a dream that has slowly faded.''Not to me,' said Frodo. 'To me it feels more like falling asleep again."
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"A true friend is a reflection of yourself."
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"Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session."
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"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
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"I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly."
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"I to myself am dearer than a friend."
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