I can generally bear the separation, but I don't like the leave-taking.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.