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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours...more

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We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

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Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the be...more

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?

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Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...

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But for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of Ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, 'Ye ...more

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Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases ...more

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For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fig...more

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In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into a...more

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I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like...more

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When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very...more

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Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

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Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even tast...more

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Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it ...more