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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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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

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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.

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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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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