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"Are you saying even your friends spread rumors about you and your wife?"
"Mainly my friends. That's what they think friendship means: the freedom to turn you into a topic of conversation.

If not managed properly, philanthropy can both harm the giver and spoil the receiver. [ ... ] Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.

Intimacy can be an unbearable burden for those who, first experiencing it after a lifetime of proud self-suffiency, suddenly realize it makes their world complete. Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it. [ . . . ] Thus . . . their newfound joy in companionship turns into a deeper expression of the solitude they thought they had left behind.