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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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Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love. – Proverb

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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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