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[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that Love and Friendship which have been so often set apart from each other as things distinct are in reality closely related and shade imperceptibly into each other. Women are beginning to demand that Marriage shall mean Friendship as well as Passion; that a comrade-like Equality shall be included in the word Love; and it is recognised that from the one extreme of a 'Platonic' friendship (generally between persons of the same sex) up to the other extreme of passionate love (generally between persons of opposite sex) no hard and fast line can at any point be drawn effectively separating the different kinds of attachment. We know, in fact, of Friendships so romantic in sentiment that they verge into love; we know of Loves so intellectual and spiritual that they hardly dwell in the sphere of Passion. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#friendship #gender-equality #love #marriage #men

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#her #herself #i #i can #killed

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#friendship #increases #life #setting #setting sun

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#both #both sides #capable #compromise #country

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#diplomats #message #our #prophets #ultimatum

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#come #comic #context #i #i love

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. ↗

— Henry Ford

#best #best friend #brings #friend #me

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. ↗

— John M. Ford

#author #certainly #decide #decipher #else

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#behind #horrifying #left #moment #more

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits. ↗

— Richard Foreman

#any #audience #because #broadway #broadway shows