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Our troubles are but mayflies, rising and falling between the turn of dawn and dusk. And then they are gone to the houses of memory, you and I will remain, Yukiko. ↗

— Jay Kristoff

#friendship

Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do. ↗

— John Hodgman

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It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . . ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

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Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter. ↗

— Deborah Day

#friendship #gentleness #kindness #friendship

فقدتني زمناً إن يكن في قلبك منه وخزة قلبي ففي قلبي كحز السيف! لم أنسك نسيان الجحود وإن كنت لم أذكرك ذكرى الوفاء فأبعث إليك بخبر يترجم عني ↗

— مصطفى صادق الرافعي

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Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities". ↗

— James Fredericks

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you know someone by what they say about others ↗

— camerounian poet

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Is it not enough to shine, To know that friends are true? That love is born of friendship, And who you are is you? ↗

— Frederic M. Perrin

#young-adult #young-adult-fantasy #friendship

I would lie of course. I lied a lot and with good reason: to protect the truth—safeguard it like wearing fake gems to keep the real ones from getting stolen or cheapened by overuse. I guarded what truths I possessed because information was not a thing—it was colorless odorless shapeless and therefore indestructible. There was no way to retrieve or void it no way to halt its proliferation. Telling someone a secret was like storing plutonium inside a sandwich bag the information would inevitably outlive the friendship or love or trust in which you’d placed it. And then you would have given it away. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

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