"Friends are God's apology for relations."

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Source : In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12

Hugh Kingsmill

#Friendship Quotes #Family Quotes #Sorry Quotes

“Only times and places, only names and ghosts.”
“I hope to contribute to a global warming of hearts and a climate change in human consciousness.”
“...in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.”
“Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?”
“Our culture is in deep trouble, and at the heart of its trouble is its loss of a vision for manhood. If its difficult for you and me as adult males to maintain our masculine balance in this gender-neutral culture, imagine what it must be like for our sons, who are growing up in an increasingly feminized world.”
“I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a â€œrealization of solitudeâ€ that goes like this: Iâ€™m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure Iâ€™d never felt more godforsaken in my life. Thereâ€™s a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And Iâ€™m guessing that once youâ€™ve discovered this distinction you canâ€™t go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.”
“How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.”
“Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.”

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