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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

— Marshall McLuhan

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

— Seneca

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

— Charles Eastman

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

— Cyril Connolly

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

— Saadi

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

— Jeff Bridges

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

— Charles Bronson

✗Opposing Perspectives

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

— Oscar Wilde