Absence Quotes
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Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall
George Fetherling
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Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.
William S. Burroughs
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…Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of."
"Like the dark?"
She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.
Carrie Jones
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...there's not a single corpse in Shoah (1985). The people who arrived at Treblinka, Belzec or Sobibor were killed within two or three hours and their corpses burned. The proof is not the corpses; the proof is the absence of corpses. There were special details who gathered the dust and threw it into the wind or into the rivers. Nothing of them remained.
Claude Lanzmann
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The condition of the United States positively announces the lack of substance, of unifying principle from the start: that consensus is a lie, and that the absence of consensus is a necessary condition for, not the dissolution of the political entity, and its reconstruction according to both viral and virtual principles, which, are, in practice, user-generated.
Davis Schneiderman
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch
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In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
Bruce Sterling
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
O weary reckoning!
William Shakespeare
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The absence of a peace treaty [with Japan] is an anachronism we inherited from the past and it must be removed. However, how to do this is a complicated issue.
Vladimir Putin
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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare
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When we don't get that escape from our work selves, I think we feel its absence on a deep, almost primal level. Leisure is uncommodified, unoccupied time where we get to be truly free, so feeling bad about missing the weekend isn't just, "Damn, I didn't make it to the mall!" It's a profound loss.
Katrina Onstad
