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parting quotes

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“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.” Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.” John Irving, The World According to Garp
“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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