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Alone, [Chamcha] all at once remembered that he and Pamela had once disagreed, as they disagreed on everything, on a short-story they’d both read, whose theme was precisely the nature of the unforgivable. Title and author eluded him, but the story came back vividly. A man and a woman had been intimate friends (never lovers) for all their adult lives. On his twenty-first birthday (they were both poor at the time) she had given him, as a joke, the most horrible, cheap glass vase she could find, in colours a garish parody of Venetian gaiety. Twenty years later, when they were both successful and greying, she visited his home and quarrelled with him over his treatment of a mutual friend. In the course of the quarrel her eye fell upon the old vase, which he still kept in pride of place on his sitting-room mantelpiece, and, without pausing in her tirade, she swept it to the floor, crushing it beyond hope of repair. He never spoke to her again; when she died, half a century later, he refused to visit her deathbed or attend her funeral, even though messengers were sent to tell him that these were her dearest wishes. ‘Tell her,’ he said to the emissaries, 'that she never knew how much I valued what she broke.’ The emissaries argued, pleaded, raged. If she had not known how much meaning he had invested in the trifle, how could she in all fairness be blamed? And had she not made countless attempts, over the years, to apologize and atone? And she was dying, for heaven’s sake; could not this ancient, childish rift be healed at last? They had lost a lifetime’s friendship; could they not even say goodbye? 'No,’ said the unforgiving man. – 'Really because of the vase? Or are you concealing some other, darker matter?’ – 'It was the vase,’ he answered, 'the vase, and nothing but.’ Pamela thought the man petty and cruel, but Chamcha had even then appreciated the curious privacy, the inexplicable inwardness of the issue. 'Nobody can judge an internal injury,’ he had said, 'by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole.

A lonely soul is the best friend of itself

A loner, by nature, burdens no one with their existence. By avoiding entanglements with others, they cause no harm. We are extremely ecologically friendly, clean, and environmentally aware creatures.

A lonely human we think is lonely. Freakin thoughts surround it. A lonely bird we think is lonely. Damn! Did you see! The giant nature around it. Disrespectful of nature if we be, lonely are only we.

—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend. —I will take the risk, said Stephen. —And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.

A lot of people pray for power, house, financial breakthrough, wealth etc. But only few ask God for wisdom. There are so many great power pack man and women of God who lack wisdom.

Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. The gross vapors of earth were gathering around me, and closing in upon my inward heaven; and thus it was that Mr. Weston rose at length upon me, appearing like the morning star in my horizon, to save me from the fear of utter darkness; and I rejoiced that I now had a subject for contemplation that was above me, not beneath.

A loyal friend believes in you even when you don't. Borrow courage from a friend when you need it. Find and surround yourself with people who are true.

A loyal pet is better than a disloyal friend.

A lot of times, I wonder why she’s put up with me for all the years that she has when it would be so much easier for her to walk away and pretend she never knew me.

A loyal pet is better than a faithless friend.

Ältere Bekanntschaften und Freundschaften haben vor neuen hauptsächlich das voraus, dass man sich einander schon viel verziehen hat.

Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.

Although failure is a good learning experience, you don’t have to go through life making mistakes if they can be avoided.

Always be careful what you say. You can say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom

Always be careful of your friend who loves your enemy; you either trust such a fellow for your life or for your death!

Always dare to be in the company of those stronger than you. Sooner or later, you will be stronger than those who were once stronger than you, but unfortunately, they joined the company of those who are weaker than them!

Although previous studies had suggested that friendship--male and female--could be a powerful antidote to stress, more recent research indicates that broken promises, dashed expectations, and other side effects of friendship gone wrong can actually raise the level of stress in our lives, often to disastrous effect.

Always be grateful to those who have given you struggle, without them you would not know the capacity of your strength....those I consider my real friends.

Although time is equally possessed by everyone, it is valued and used differently by the successful.

Always direct your emotions, desires, behaviour, and actions in the present so they are in alignment with what you want in your future.

Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.

Always look into the future when deciding how to use your time in the present.

A male-female close-friendship hardly differs from a relationship; it takes "relating" to be friends. But sadly, not every relationship has friendship in it. It's just ironical that two people who are not good enough to be best friends are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.

Always respect imaginary friends. They're on twenty-four hour call, and you're not.

A man with wisdom will always have a solution no matter how big his challenges may be. Wisdom makes you a problem solver.

A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.

Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. “Where’ve you been, what’ve you been up to?” “Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend, he was a Personification of the Sydney Tar Ponds, sort of my imaginary friend?” Mandy asked. “No, what in the name of god are you on about?” her mom sighed in exasperation. “Remember? Only I could see him, but he was real and he was my best friend when I was eighteen?” Mandy insisted. “No, I don't remember Alecto Sydney Steele at all,” said her mom all too quickly.

A man with good reputation among friends, not necessarily have the same reputation within family.

A mediocre idea acted on is of more value than a handful of brilliant ideas that remain in your mind.

Amazing love, amazing life.

American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

Am I giving you a headache? I think. “You are a headache.

A message from God... If You Accept It... I Would Give You the Glorious Gift of Seeing Yourself Exactly as I see You... And I See You as Perfection and of Immeasurable Importance.

Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

Always cherish your true friends who were there when no one else was.

Always happens with men. They promise friendship. They promise to treat you as an equal. In the end, all they want is to possess you.

An appropriate joke should contain elements of information that sounds realistic, logical and entertaining which can amuse others to listen you when initiating a meaningful conversation.

An abundance of thinking leads to me, me, me. An abundance of Thanking leads to YOU, YOU, YOU!

A most amazing defense with Power to destroy any enemy… GRATITUDE!

And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpose was to drive us back the way we had come before we could disturb his- its- peace,but a sudden and unexpected wash of pity that he should be so alone and so defenceless in the dark that was now coming over our side of the world.

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: "Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity. "The ideas Earthlings held didn't matter for hundreds of thousands of years, since they couldn't do much about them anyway. Ideas might as well be badges as anything. "They even had a saying about the futility of ideas: 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.' "And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense or decency or self-preservation, but for friendliness. "Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead. And even when they built computers to do some thinking for them, they designed them not so much for wisdom as for friendliness. So they were doomed. Homicidal beggars could ride.

And even though we knew it couldn't go on forever the way it was, I don't think any of us were ready for it to end so soon. Sometimes the end of an era comes when you still can't comprehend what that time meant - how it shaped you, and how you'll still miss it sometimes, even twenty-five years later.

And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.

And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting.