Status Updates From The Four Loves

I really like the chapter on friendship. Fav quote so far: “The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to eat the beauties of all others. They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by friendship God opens our eyes to them.”

In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ronald's reaction to a specifically Caroline joke. Far from having more of Ronald, having him 'to myself' now that Charles is away, I have less of Ronald

“nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their Friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best.

Fell asleep reading this

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