Colette on friendship

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus1913–1960

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’

C. S. Lewis1898–1963