Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

La Rochefoucauld
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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

More Quotes By La Rochefoucauld
  1. We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

  2. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

  3. We always love those who admire us and we do not always love those whom we admire.

  4. Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

  5. We give advice but we do not inspire conduct.

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