Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld

Absence makes the heart go wander. ~ Betsy Barr

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. ~ Elizabeth Ashley

The heart may think it knows better; the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ~ Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart, 1966

When my self is not with you, it is nowhere. ~ Heloise

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

Is not absence death to those who love? ~ Alexander Pope

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ~ Comte DeBussy Rabutin

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ~ Ouida

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. ~ Thomas Fuller

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