"It often happens that a man is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
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“Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.”
“I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.”
“When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom”