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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“...The human heart is the source of all our hate--and all our love. We must tame our wild hearts--or we will never understand the spark of the universe that lives within us all. To live and never to understand the strange and beautiful mysteries of the human heart is to make a tragedy of our lives.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons