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People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.
People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.
Approximate author period: c. 1979 AD · modern
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- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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- Approximate author period: c. 1979 AD · modern
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