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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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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."
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"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
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"How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!"
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"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."
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"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
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"He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you."
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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
Past

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

"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
Learning

"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
Experience

"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."
Family

"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."
Life

"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

"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."
Money

"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."
Family
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