"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.“
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"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
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"The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike."
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"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
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"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up."
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
-Henri Nouwen
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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."
-C. S. Lewis
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-Henry David Thoreau
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