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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could sho...

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The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

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How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had n...

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The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

Achilles absent was Achilles still.

7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

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John SteinbeckThe Winter of Our Discontent

She told him of ship voyages she had taken to places he had never heard of, and stories he knew were...

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Do you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?

He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the ...

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I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absen...

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the...

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Maya AngelouWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Som...

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against ...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair...

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they comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love i...

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Samuel BeckettSelected Poems 1930-1988

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energet...

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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Ab...

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But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grie...

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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet acc...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is real...

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Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is...

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But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.