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I never indulge sentiment over broken friendships. We have extracted all we need from a friend, and so get rid of him on the same terms as he gets rid of us.

— Norman Lindsay

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If anyone assumes that going one's own way is the easy way, they are very much in error. There's no harder way to go.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

Let your conduct be noble, and never sing the National Anthem to people wearing bell-toppers.

The Magic Pudding (1918)

In the art of biography, the idolator is just as objectionable as the debunker.

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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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