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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and s

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. – Walter Benjamin

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. – Walter Benjamin

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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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Never find fault with the absent. – Proverb

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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

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