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QuoteMemorizeAges 16–18 · The Liberal Education
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis, 1960
The Four Loves, 1960

Lewis on the moment friendship begins. From the chapter on philia.

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