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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin · The source reads: “L'absence est à l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; il éteint le petit, il allume le grand.” · A maxim from the Maximes d'amour in Bussy-Rabutin's Histoire amoureuse des Gaules, 1660, in the familiar English rendering.

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