James Joyce on friendship

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

(Of Shakespeare) A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.

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