| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da39bee | What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. | friends friendship life proust-questionnaire rushdie | Christopher Hitchens | |
| fd0661d | (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child. | sex friends fear death proust-questionnaire impotence mothers idleness proust misery children | Christopher Hitchens |