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Fire Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.
- Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear
- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire
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