This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared.
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It may overlook the need for forward‑looking support.
I can't shake off the idea that after death you keep being alive. That to be dead is to live an endless nightmare.
It is always that way: between the moment he meets her again and the moment he recognizes her for the woman he loves, he has some distance to go.
Love is our freedom.
How oddly situated a man is apt to find himself at the age of thirty-eight! His youth belongs to the distant past. Yet the period of memory beginning with the …
All men naturally hate one another; there could not be four friends in the world. (101)
It's hard enough to get to know yourself and as most of you have probably found, once you get to know two people in tandem it's even more difficult.