This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirr…

Milan Kundera
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This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared. ✨ Identity. Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.
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This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared. ✨ Identity. Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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