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“No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.”

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”

“Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.”

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

“Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.”

“Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall”

“As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that”

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”

“Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.”

“Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid”

“Is not absence death to those who love?”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.”