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Wonder as the Driving Force of True Friendship

Wonder as the Driving Force of True Friendship

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself. C.S. Lewis

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According to C.S. Lewis, friendship is something we can all do without but don’t want to live without. It is totally unnecessary for life, but if we don’t have it, we feel life is not worth living.

Friendship is not based on any obligations whatsoever. Friends don’t owe each other anything.

“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world ha…

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