The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.
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Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.
The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!
At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?
Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed...
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.