It is a person with whom you dare to be
“What is a friend? I will tell you.
yourself.
Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are.
He does not want you to be better, or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent.
You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you.
He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you.
C. Raymond Beran
