Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.

  • -- Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld 弗朗索瓦六世,罗切福科公爵

离别会减弱平庸的情感,却会增强伟大的情感,就像风吹灭蜡烛,点燃火焰一样。

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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.

缺席者需要时间才能在我们的思想中呈现出他们真实的形象。死后,他们有一个更坚定的轮廓,然后停止改变。

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

身体虽不在,精神却在。