It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

Colette
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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. It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a...

  2. What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

  3. If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

  4. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

  5. No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

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