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ABSENCE: Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. (La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)
ABSENCE: The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. (Ouida [pseudonym for Maria Louise Rame] English novelist, 1838-1909)
ABSENCE: Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet, 1850-1894)