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  • True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

    Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation
  • When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.

  • The bible teaches that a father may sell his daughter for a slave, that he may sacrifice her purity to a mob, and that he may murder her, and still be a good father and a holy man. It teaches that a man may have any number of wives; that he may sell them, give them away, or swap them around, and still be a perfect gentleman, a good husband, a righteous man, and one of God's most intimate friends; and that is a pretty good position for a beginning.

  • A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

    "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.
  • Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

  • An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.

    Life   Emotional   Enemy  
    Sigmund Freud, H. W. Chase (2016). “THE “UNCONSCIOUS” TRILOGY: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life & Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious: The Dream Book, The Mistake Book, The Joke Book & Freud’s Theories of the Unconscious”, p.350, e-artnow
  • The world was hers for the reading.

  • I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

    Blood   Vision   Comfort  
  • Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

    BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
  • Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

    Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.27, Univ of California Press
  • I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

  • There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 28, 2011
  • Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.293
  • I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

    New York   Mean   Past  
  • Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

    In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20
  • A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.

    Princess   Heart   Men  
    J. Christopher Herold (2002). “The Age of Napoleon”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

    George Washington (1852). “The Life of General Washington: First President of the United States”, p.94
  • Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

    George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.94
  • Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

    Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.18
  • A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.

    Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

    Friends   Men   Intimate  
  • Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson (1972). “The American notebooks”, Ohio State Univ Pr
  • True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

    George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239
  • From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

    Lonely   Book   Reading  
    BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
  • Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

  • My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

    God   Christian   Time  
  • Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

    Beauty   Voice   People  
    Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press
  • Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (1884). “Cicero de Amicitia (on Friendship) and Scipio's Dream”
  • From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

    Lonely   Reading   World  
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