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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte