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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our tho

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. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. – Sir Matthew Hale

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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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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. – Thomas Fuller

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