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«Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.»
«It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.»
«There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.»
«They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: parted, raiment, rend, vesture, vestures
«Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: casting lots, parted, raiment
«One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love»
«No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.»
«Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.»
«Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.»
«So we grew together,Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,But yet an union in partition.»

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