“No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each. ”
“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”
“I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.”
“What becomes of a chain of argument when the links are made of different metals, each with a separate frangibility?”
“I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.”
“Sometimes I wonder if a friendship in which the common ground is all that is bad about each person is a friendship worth having.”