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• I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.

  Pierre Clostermann

  Summer, Morning, Taken

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• And should I not, had I but known, have flung the machine this way and that, once more to feel it live under my hand, have sported in the sky and laughed and sung, knowing that never after should I feel so free, so sure in hazard, so secure, riding the daylight in the pride of youth? No more horizons wider than Hope! No more the franchise of the sky, the freedom of the blue! No more! Farewell to wings! Down to the little earth!

  Cecil Arthur Lewis

  Pride, Knowing, Blue

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• Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.

  Kangin

  Reality, Medicine, Reason

  Source: sjworld.net

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• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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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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• Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

  Jessamyn West

  Grieving, Long, Sorrow

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• But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

  Edward Young

  Friends, Goodbye, Fate

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.280

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• Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

  Lord Byron

  Faults, Hated, Mines

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night!

  Lord Byron

  Good Night, Country, Sea

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.178, Delphi Classics

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• No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Goodbye, Song, Jockeys

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• The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Air, Mourning, Dying

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.133

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• Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system.

  Bassam Tibi

  Giving Up, Islamic, Ideas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses, annunciations, and so on. Epistles can be apologetic, commendatory, friendship-oriented, exhortational, diatribes.

  Craig Blomberg

  Miracle, Apologetic, Apocalypse

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Dinner, Likes

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

  Aldis Hodge

  Speaks Out, People, President

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.

  Tommy Chong

  Wish, Retiring

  Source: vegascannabismag.com

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• One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Men, Sky, Sea

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other'

  John Avlon

  Community, Alarms, Addresses

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• Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.

  Oliver $

  Writing, Mean, Understanding

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• Sometimes you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there is really something there.
  Sometimes you won't let go of love. More times love won't let go of you.
  That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell!

  Robert Pollok

  Love, Letting Go, Bitter Words

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• Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

  John Milton

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• There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Goodbye, Men, Good Bye

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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• I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice which is more "feminine" than female. Nor could I learn anything from ancient female poetry that only sang about love, the feeling of farewell and longing for others.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Voice, Role Models, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it.
  Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about.

  Richard Ford

  Dream, Retirement, Thinking

  1992 'An Urge for Going', in Harper's, Feb.

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• Cold indeed, and labor lost:
  Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Frost, Welcome

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1836). “Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.201

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