
Alexander Nehamas on Friendship
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The Importance of Friendship
friendship is always a relatively long term relationship some friendships of course a much shorter term than others but the important friendships that we're talking about are the ones that last not necessarily over a lifetime but over a longer period of time. To be a true friend to somebody involves understanding them and to understand somebody you have to see them in a range of situations exactly a friend is a person who in your individual actions can see you as a person or works by Picasso, Bellini or whatever.
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