Big things expressed simply.

Absence diminishes small love, and increases great ones; as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

(1613--1680
Duc de La Rochefocauld)

it's amazing how people so ancient can come up with a quote so impactful like this. Unassuming, bare and naked--put across plainly and to some point, blatantly. So much that when I stumbled across it, it jumps out and screams at me, well literally. So, i replied, "hell, this is true. damn right."