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“The distance is nothing when one has a motive;” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
“Time is more important to me than distance.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“TELEPHONE, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“If one had to fill in, little by little, the gap between day and night, it would take an eternity to do it. But the sun rises and the darkness is dispelled—a moment is sufficient to overcome an infinite distance.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“she could never love a man like him, because he understood the Universe, and all human feelings look small when viewed from a distance.” Paulo Coelho, Brida
“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself, through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and snuffles, romance only sighs.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“Keep things at arm's length . . . If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.” Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades
“Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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