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“We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go unquestioned.”

— Aminatta Forna

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How it only seems to be evil people who think they can change the world?

“When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.”

“What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.”

“If you want to know a country, read its writers.”

“A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.”

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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