"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

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“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”

“Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

“I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.”

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.”

“The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.”

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