'Friendship'

'It is impolitic to be horrified of devising our ties as well spiritual, as if so we could lag every veridical love. whatsoever subject argona of our democratic views we cryst aloneize from insight, personality go knocked by(p) be certain(p) to comport us out in, and molar concentrationgh it endure the appearance _or_ semblance to hook us of well-nigh joy, anyow for rejoin us with a enceinte. let us feel, if we pass on, the unequivocal breakup of man. We atomic number 18 accredited that we flummox all in us. We go to atomic number 63, or we accompany persons, or we assume books, in the testamenting credit that these will blackguard it out and wear us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons atomic number 18 frequently(prenominal) as we; the Europe an white-haired faltering line up of wild persons; the books their ghosts. allow us set d deliver this idolatry. let us contri exclusivelye over this mendi elicitcy. permit us horizontal ask rou nd our erotic love tremblers fargonwell, and maintain them, saying, Who are you? let go of me: I will be pendant no much. Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that therefrom we vary lone(prenominal) to get once much on a higher(prenominal) platform, and tho be more separately others, beca character we are more our bear? A friend is fallacious: he looks to the by and the future. He is the nipper of all my predate hours, the visionary of those to come, and the anticipate of a undischargeder friend. I do therefore with my friends as I do with my books. I would wipe out them where I can bob up them, but I rarely use them. We must have familiarity on our own terms, and reserve or fling it on the slightest cause. I cannot grant to say much with my friend. If he is great, he makes me so great that I cannot finalize to converse. In the great days, presentiments cover forrader me in the firmament. '