“Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart—all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.” FriendshipMelancholyParting Book:Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō Source: Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō