Absent Quotes
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
Charlotte Bronte
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History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
Benedetto Croce
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It's a whole nother aspect of this life that most people have no idea about. There's the loved ones, the wives, the girlfriends, the children. Some of the people out here are fathers and mothers. Whether you mean to or not, you end up neglecting your family in a lot of ways. Even if you do your best to keep in touch, the fact of the matter is that you're physically absent.
Chuck Ragan
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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
William H. Gass
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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
Albert Camus
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We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.
Eugenia Price
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As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
Brigid Schulte
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When the great history of horticulture is written I will be listed among the absent.
Allan Sherman
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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
George S. Kaufman
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Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms.
Astra Taylor
