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“Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
“We are no more than candles burning in the wind”
Japanese Proverb
“Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.”
William Least Heat Moon
“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words.”
William Shakespeare
“What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.”
Catullus
“Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind, / Or the car rattling o'er the stony street;/ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; / No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet / To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.”
Lord Byron
“I hear the wind a blowI hear the grass a grow,And all that I know, I know.But I will not speak, I will run away.”
William Butler Yeats
“I am a feather for each wind that blows”
“Who am I to blow against the wind?”
Paul Simon
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