“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”

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C.S. Lewis,

The Four Loves

Friendship is a bulwark against stasis, a potential source of creativity and renewal.Practically everyone who studies friendship says this in some form or another: What makes friendship so fragile is also exactly what makes it so special. You have to continually opt in. That you choose it is what gives it its value.