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“I have plenty of friends," she says.
"Name one."
She looks at me.
Which I guess is sort of sweet.”
― Pastoralia
"Name one."
She looks at me.
Which I guess is sort of sweet.”
― Pastoralia
“A great friend can act like a trash can with a hole in the bottom. To listen to someone else's personal garbage with the same empathy you would spend listening to their joy, and then release that garbage just as quickly as you hear it, without absorbing it, makes you a wonderful friend to that person--and an even better one to yourself.”
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“Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness.”
― Magician: Apprentice
― Magician: Apprentice
“You are my heart, my head, my spine-you are the beat thumping through every line, and that’s why I write–it’s the only time we can be side by side.”
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“The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these.
"I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
"I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod
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