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Quote by Elizabeth Bowen
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. - Eliz

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller

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

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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen

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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. – Jean De La Bruyere

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