Quotes: Absence, Separation

(Making the heart grow fonder—for someone else.)

Quotations

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
—La Rochefoucauld [version 1]

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.
—Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) [version 2]

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
—Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)

Absence makes the heart grow fonder . . . for someone else.
—Author unknown

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