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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it rekindles the great.

Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

Franois de La Rouchefoucauld

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

John Dryden

Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire

Duc de la Rouchefoucauld

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted,we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt

Love reckons hours for months, and das for years; And every little absence is an age

John Dryden, Amphitryon

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!

Thomas Bayly

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear

Mark Twain

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

William Shakespeare

The absence of war is not peace.

Harry S Truman

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence

Shelagh Delaney

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

American Proverb

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Karl Marx

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Arthur Miller

Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes

Hannah Moore

Absence makes the heart grow wander

Gerald Barzan

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

Edwin C Bliss

You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.

Earl Nightingale

It is remarkable that great affectation and great absence of it (unconsciousness) are at first sight very similar; they are both apt to produce singularity

Archbishop Richard Whately

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

Nick Rahall

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Vaclav Havel

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

François de la Rochefoucauld

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