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Absence
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“Absence becomes the greatest Presence.”
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“And when the long hours of our parting are past and we meet with champagne and a chicken at last ...”
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“Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of — ah, no! — it is life's most delicious feeling.”
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“Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.”
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“I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long — it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.”
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“Nights I turn to you to hold me / but you are not there.”
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“... in order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ...”
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“Such friends as have been absent long / more joyful be at meeting / Than those which ever present are / and daily have their greeting.”
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“... what a pity it is, that the fashion of being in two places at once is not yet introduced! you would be very serviceable here to your family.”
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“Absence was a heady spice.”
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“when you're away i feel like / i'm only wearing one shoe.”
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“It is always winter when I am away from you ...”
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“How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away ... ?”
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“Distance only separates bodies, and that, alas! is quite enough.”
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“It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.”
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“... it's the folk that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.”
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“Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.”
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“Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.”
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“Real separation, to me, is the death of love. Any other — parting — well, it just isn't real.”
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“The lover in the crowded room / Empty of the one essential, / Creates the missing face, more vital / More fresh than when it touched his own.”
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“... I have neither religion enough, nor philosophy enough, nor youth enough, nor life enough, to exist through faith in the absent and the distant and the invisible; and when I take up the pen to write to you, I am so painfully struck by the hopelessness of our separation in this world, that I could almost throw it down again with an 'à quoi bon?'”
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“... the absence of evidence does not mean the evidence of absence.”
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“... absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.”
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“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”
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“Absence on Love effects the same / As winds oppos'd to fire / Extinguishes a feeble Flame / And blows a great one higher.”
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“And now a month has passed and not a word have I had from you, / Not so much as a scrawl to say you could not write!”
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“It was his absence, not his presence, that had shaped her life.”
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“Do they miss me at home, do they miss me? / 'T would be an assurance most dear / To know that this moment some loved one / Was saying, 'Oh were she but here!'”
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“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.”
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“The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes — to walk solitary where one has walked in company — to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.”
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“It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence.”
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