When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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