Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
Interpretation
Friendship comes with a sense of responsibility towards each other.
This quote emphasizes the deep bond that forms in friendship, suggesting that once you become someone's friend, you inherently take on a responsibility for their well-being and happiness. It highlights the notion that true friendship involves care, support, and accountability for one another.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of mutual support in friendships.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can't do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn't say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I'm going to be loyal to my friend because he's my friend.
Here's to us, who's like us Damn few, and they're all dead.
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
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