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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. — Arthur Schopenhauer · 1851All partings foreshadow the great final one. — Charles Dickens · 1853The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. — Charles Dickens · 1838And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran · 1923It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, but for how well we can endure loneliness. — Karen · 1985Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let's pretend we had one. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004
Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let's pretend we had one. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004
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All partings foreshadow the great final one. — Charles Dickens · 1853
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And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran · 1923
Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Let's pretend we had one. — Clementine Kruczynski · 2004
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. — Charles Dickens · 1838
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It's an odd feeling, farewell. There is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested, for courage. And if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, but for how well we can endure loneliness. — Karen · 1985
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. — Charles Dickens · 1838