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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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It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this...more

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

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When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, you...more

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If you are foe, we do not fear you. If you are friend, your foes will be taught the fear of us.

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Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.

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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then ma...more

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We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

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The Prayer that precedes all other prayer is, may the real me meet the real you.

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To shrink back from all that can be called Nature into negative spirituality is as if we ran away from horses instead of learning to ride. There is in...more

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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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The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

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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