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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

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Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. Similarly, your identity and vision are composed of a certain constellation of ideas and feelings that surfaced from the depths of the distance within you. To lose these now would be to lose yourself. ↗

— John O'Donohue

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And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares. ↗

— Jim Butcher

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Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are. . . [But] I do pick you. . . We've been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I'd pick you. ↗

— John Green

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