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Friendship (91)
The horror of the Same Old Thing is [. . .] an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, in.delity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship. The humans live in time, and experience reality successively. To experience much of it, therefore, they must experience many di.erent things; in other words, they must experience change. And since they need change, the Enemy (being a hedonist at heart) has made change pleasurable to them. - C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942)
Lev felt the strength of his friends and the whole community, supporting and upholding. It was as if he were not Lev alone, but Lev times a thousand- himself, but himself immensely increased, enlarged, a boundless self mingled with all the other selves, set free, as no man alone could ever be free. - Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘‘The Eye of the Heron’’ (1978)
Consider how erroneous and unwise it is to fear death, a state that deserves, rather, vindication! For what can equal the perfection of nonexistence? - Stanislaw Lem, ‘‘Automatthew’s Friend’’ (1965)
Death seemed more like an old friend than an interruption. It was sleep. - Craig Strete, ‘‘Time Deer’’ (1974)
[On Earth:] ‘‘A peaceful world, certainly,’’ said Zinin. ‘‘Rather light on the oxygen and argon, and all that nitrogen gives it a bit of odor, but on the whole a most pleasant ball of dirt.’’ - Alan Dean Foster, ‘‘With Friends Like These’’ (1971)
The earth pulled him down, tugging at him like a burdensome friend. - George Zebrowski, Macrolife (1979)
Education, my friend, is not always a blessing. Like a gun, it depends on who has it. - Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky, Prisoners of Power (1969)
I knew that even though you became a member of the community you would not cease to be my friend; ‘‘A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.’’ - Edgar Rice Burroughs, APrincessof Mars (1917)
The most fearful of monsters is the well-known friend slightly altered. - Kobo Abé, InterIceAge4 (1959)
The great and sudden assurance of friendship between us rose: a friendship so much needed by us both in our exile, and already so well proved in the days and nights of our bitter journey, that it might as well be called, now as later, love. But it was from the di.erence between us, not from the a.nities and likenesses, but from the di.erence, that that love came; and it was itself the bridge, the only bridge, across what divided us. - Ursula K. Le Guin, TheLeftHandof Darkness (1969)
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