Alexander Averin painting
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back: a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Francis Bacon
Henry David Thoreau
Alice Miller
Anais Nin
Thomas Wilson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marcel Proust
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