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A Goodbye is a denial of separation... it is to say today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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The Goodbye is never good to dwell on, for it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
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