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

Ouida
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  1. Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. - Unknown

  2. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. - Unknown

  3. Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
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  4. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow. - Coco J. Ginger

  5. They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but absence also dulls the memory and then we tend to forget who we were missing in the first place. - Anthony T. Hincks

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  1. One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--" Wanda

  2. Death had been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the loyalty of love, and the other in the innocence of faith, from a world which for love has no recompense and for faith no fulfillment.

  3. There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--" Wanda

  4. Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--" Wanda

  5. I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

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