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• A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

  Charles Buxton

  Party, Too Much, Flight

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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• You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences of separation and pain will surface again and again until you come to understand that you, yourself, are creating them. Eventually, you will choose to create harmony and love. You will choose to draw to you the highest-frequency currents that each situation has to offer. Eventually, you will come to understanding that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Distance, Love You

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single day during our relationship, no matter where in the world I was, I'd get a telegram from Frank saying he loved me and missed me. He was a man who was deseperate for companionship and love. Can you wonder that he always had mine!

  Ava Gardner

  Men, Phones, And Love

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• Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Relationship, Book, Female

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.133, Penguin

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• He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Bedrock

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• I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

  Kurt Cobain

  Tired, People, Sake

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  Solitude sometimes is best society.

  John Milton

  Solitude, Sometimes

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 249

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• When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

  Deb Caletti

  Dog, Want, Persons

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• Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something wrong, as the case may be." He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

  Cassandra Clare

  May, Scandal, Sides

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• There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Loneliness, Expectations, Solitude

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “The Haunted Baronet”, p.52, 谷月社

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• Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

  Anais Nin

  Character, Men, Secret

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

  Jon Krakauer

  Mean, Intelligent, Missing

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• I rather wonder what I am doing here. I enjoy city life, you know. The glittering lights, the constant companionship, the liquid entertainment. The lack of sudden monkeys.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Cities, Monkeys

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• After one moment of gripped immobility, the queen bent to kiss the king lightly on one closed eyelid, then on the other. She said, 'I love your eyes.' She kissed him on either cheek, near the small lobe of his ear. 'I love your ears, and I love'-she paused as she kissed him gently on the lips-'every single one of your ridiculous lies.' The king opened his eyes and smiled at the queen in a companionship that was as unassailable as it was unfathomable.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Lying

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• Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Sweet, Eye, Fate

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• The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

  Julian Barnes

  Wonderful, Form

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• We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Light, Air, Appreciate

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)”, p.77, Random House

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• What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -

  Susan Sontag

  Needs, Disorder, Feels

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.11, Macmillan

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• All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Order, Two

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• Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Spiritual, Morning, Heart

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• I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.

  Ann Aguirre

  Eye, Animal, People

  "Outpost". Book by Ann Aguirre, 2012.

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• Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

  Doris Lessing

  Loneliness, People, Spirit

  Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.93, Heinemann

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• [Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Giving, Promise

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• We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.

  Dorothy Day

  Heaven, Bread, Life Is

  "The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day". Book by Dorothy Day, 1952.

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• Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.

  Arlene J. Chai

  Passion, Matter, Lasts

  Arlene J. Chai (1995). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, Fawcett Books

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