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Quotes About Friendship

I beg you friend, be happy. I have the vague sense that on your capacity to be happy hangs our only hope.
~ Milan Kundera
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.
~ Milan Kundera
They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.
~ Milan Kundera
He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out into the world and make friends.
~ Milan Kundera
To ensure that erotic friendship never grew into the aggression of love, he would only meet each of his long-term mistresses only at long intervals. He considered this method flawless and propagated it among his friends: the important thing is to abide by the rules of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
~ Milan Kundera
buku adalah emblem dari persaudaraan rahasia. Karena ia hanya memunyai satu senjata untuk memerangi dunia kekasaran yang mengelilinginya, yaitu buku-buku... ... yang lebih penting lagi adalah buku-buku novel yang telah dibacanya...
~ Milan Kundera
the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love, the desire for rest the right to rest, the desire for friendship the right to friendship, the desire to exceed the speed limit the right to exceed the speed limit, the desire for happiness the right to happiness, the desire to publish a book the right to publish a book, the desire to shout in the street in the middle of the night the right to shout in the street.
~ Milan Kundera
El libro era para Teresa la contraseña de una hermandad secreta.
~ Milan Kundera
I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.
~ Milan Kundera
Para o meu islandês, a amizade é outra coisa: ser-se um guarda diante da porta onde o amigo esconde a sua vida privada; ser-se aquele que nunca abrirá essa porta; que não permitirá que ninguém a abra.
~ Milan Kundera
Cuando Karenin vio por primera vez a Mefisto, se excitó y estuvo largo rato dando vueltas a su alrededor y olfateándolo. Pero pronto se hizo amigo de él y prefería su compañía a la de los otros perros del pueblo, a los que despreciaba porque estaban atados a sus casetas y ladraban estúpidamente, sin descanso y sin motivo. Karenin comprendió de manera adecuada el valor de lo exclusivo y podría afirmar que estaba orgulloso de su amistad con el cerdo
~ Milan Kundera
não são os inimigos, mas sim os amigos que condenam o homem à solidão.
~ Milan Kundera
Un mundo en el que toda la gente se tutea no es el mundo de la amistad generalizada sino el mundo de la falta de respeto generealizada.
~ Milan Kundera
After all, when you give someone a present, you want to do so out of love, you want to give your friend a piece of heart!
~ Milan Kundera
K samotÄ› neodsuzují ?lovÄ›ka nepÃ…â"¢átelé, ale kamarádi
~ Milan Kundera
Il pensait à autre chose : voilà la vraie et seule raison d'être de l'amitié : procurer un miroir dans lequel l'autre peut contempler son image d'autrefois qui, sans l'éternel bla-bla de souvenirs entre copains, se serait effacée depuis longtemps.
~ Milan Kundera
But Jean-Marc was telling the truth: he did not remember. Besides, he was not even trying to search his memory. He was thinking about something else: this is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared.
~ Milan Kundera
Persahabatan itu mutlak diperlukan orang, agar ingatannya bisa bekerja dengan baik.
~ Milan Kundera
Untuk memastikan bahwa diri tidak mungkret, mengerut, untuk menjamin bahwa diri tetap bertahan pada volumenya, ingatan harus disiram seperti pohon bunga dalam pot, dan untuk menyiram itu dibutuhkan kontak tetap dan teratur dengan para saksi masa silam, artinya, dengan teman dan sahabat. Teman dan sahabat adalah cermin kita; memori kita; kita tidak minta apa-apa pada mereka kecuali bahwa mereka mengelap-lap cermin itu dari waktu ke waktu supaya kita bisa melihat diri kita sendiri di situ.
~ Milan Kundera
Dia punya pantat yang bukan main, lanjut Avenarius tanpa susah-susah memikirkan pertanyaanku. Ketika masih sekolah dulu, pasti teman-temannya ingin mencubiti pantatnya. Sering kubayangkan dia menjerit dengan suara sopranonya. Suara itu adalah janji manis kebahagiaan di masa depan.
~ Milan Kundera
I had been poor myself, and knew what awaited him in the world. He would find that they who fawned on him most would be first to turn their backs on him now. He would be rudely disillusioned regarding the fables of love and friendship, and would become cynical, bitter, and sceptical of there being any disinterested good in human nature.
~ Miles Franklin
Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love
~ P. C. Cast
Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever.
~ Pam Brown
I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
~ Paris Hilton