The more people I meet the happier I become.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you?ESTRAGON: You let me go.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Two in distressmake sorrow less.