Original artwork, not a still
The Island of the Day Before · 1994
Absence is to love as wind to fire; it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Wind can put out a small fire or make a large one burn more strongly. Distance is said to act the same way on love. The contrast suggests that time apart reveals the strength of a bond by either weakening or deepening it.
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