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• The morning, which is like a farewell that approaches slowly from far away, while smiling... We are the sunshine in the night sky. It's as if the Night is sleepwalking. Slowly, we'll be forgotten.

  Lee Bo-na

  Morning, Drama, Sunshine

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• Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the Sun, Lúthien Tinúviel more fair than Mortal tongue can tell. Though all to ruin fell the world and were dissolved and backward hurled; unmade into the old abyss, yet were its making good, for this - the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea - that Lúthien for a time should be.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Running, Sweet, Lying

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• You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.

  Cassandra Clare

  Say Anything, Wanted

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1199, Simon and Schuster

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• ...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Agony, Mind, One Day

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• Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Country, Song, Heart

  Hans Christian Andersen (1901). “Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Complete)”, p.811, Library of Alexandria

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• And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.

  Donna Tartt

  Wave, Donne, Shore

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.102, Vintage

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• Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.

  Milan Kundera

  Goodbye, Thinking, Fake

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• and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.

  Paul Auster

  Lasts, Remember, Famous Last Words

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• If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Space, Survival

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• Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

  Alexander Pope

  Night, Luxury, Lobster

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “Poetical Works”, p.203

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• Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

  John Bunyan

  Journey, Views, Heaven

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• Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office.

  Jon Stewart

  Goodbye, Disappointment, Justice

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• What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

  Yann Martel

  Life Of Pi Book, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Philosophy, Grief, Slave

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• This is who I am
  Escapist
  Paradise Seeker
  Farewell, time to fly
  Out of sight
  Out of time
  Away from all lies

  Tuomas Holopainen

  Lying, Sight, Who I Am

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• Farewell Gaultier!! Preteporte will miss you! ❤ ❤ ❤ 4 ever

  Madonna Ciccone

  Missing, Will Miss You

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• I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

  Socrates

  Passion, Ignorance, Reflection

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• We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Opportunity, Years, Denmark

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God.

  John Updike

  Spring, Flower, World

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, New Beginnings, Beginning Middle And End

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

  Charles Lamb

  Daughter, Dark, Sea

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• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Goodbye, Children, Wall

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• An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Men, Embrace

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

  William Cowper

  Goodbye, Diversity, Half

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.94

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• Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Weight, Weary

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Hour Glass”, p.17, Yokai Publishing

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