Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
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Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)
“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
— Emile Zola, book Germinal
Source: Germinal
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L'absence diminue les médiocres passions, et augmente les grandes, comme le vent éteint les bougies et allume le feu.
http://books.google.com/books?id=QSdPNfXQavAC&q=%22L'absence+diminue+les+m%C3%A9diocres+passions+et+augmente+les+grandes+comme+le+vent+%C3%A9teint+les+bougies+et+allume+le+feu%22&pg=PA75#v=onepage
Variant translation: Absence weakens the minor passions and adds to the effects of great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Maxim 276.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
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