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" Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. "

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" Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. "

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

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" Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. "

" Friends are born, not made. "

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" Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. "

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" Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different. "

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" I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all. "

" Sweat makes good friendship cement. "

" To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. "

" No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. "

" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "

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" A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships. "

" Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. "

" Love is a friendship set to music. "

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" Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. "

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" If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. "

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" Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject. "

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