There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.― Charles Dickens

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

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I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

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Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.- Ann Landers

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. - Simone de Beauvoir

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. - Simone de Beauvoir

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. - Simone de Beauvoir

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