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• Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

  Billy Graham

  Perfection, Heaven, Earth

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• Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

  Jane Austen

  Cousin, Hair, Diversity

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1085, Wordsworth Editions

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• And yet when i finally drifted of in that barely conscious state where logic was absent and dreams encroached i could almost hear bone's voice. he was whispering that same promise he'd made to me months ago when our relationship started and i wondered if it was a sign - and if he'd really meant it. If you run from me i'll chase you. And i'll find you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Running, Dream, Voice

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• The limner's art may trace the absent feature,
  And give the eye of distant weeping faith
  To view the form of its idolatry;
  But oh! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted;
  The thoughts--the recollections sweet and bitter,--
  Th' Elysian dreams of lovers, when they loved,--
  Who shall restore them?

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Dream, Sweet, Art

  Charles Robert Maturin (1816). “Betram, Or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand: A Trgedy ...”, p.11

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• Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has been conspicuously absent from the campaigns for civil rights for nonwhites, women, gays and lesbians.

  Michael Lind

  Struggle, Gay, Rights

  Source: blogs.chicagotribune.com

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• Always in absent lovers love's tide flows stronger.

  Propertius

  Real, Stronger, Flow

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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

  Writing, Editors, Habit

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them know why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers.

  Avril Lavigne

  Prayer, Issues, Feelings

  "Avril Lavigne Asks Fans To #PrayForAvril While Suffering From Mystery Illness" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 09, 2014.

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• When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

  Lauren London

  Love Is, Opinion, Should

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• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Mother, Opportunity

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• Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two to three years, you might as well flip a coin to decide.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Two, Twenties

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Exercise, Our Actions, Epicureanism

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Never speak ill of an absent friend.

  Plautus

  Friends, Speak, Absent Mindedness

  Plautus (2007). “The Rope and Other Plays”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Past, Reality

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• A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Mean, Men

  "The Time Machine". Book by H. G. Wells, 1895.

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• When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Intellectual, Skins, Unmotivated

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• If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

  Heloise

  Memories, Regret, Character

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• Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all this time. Like a mirror that reflects what is absent rather than present, he shows you the void in your soul—the void you have resisted seeing. That person can be a lover, a friend, or a spiritual master. Sometimes it can be a child to look after. What matters is to find the soul that will complete yours. All the prophets have given the same advice: Find the one who will be your mirror!".

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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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

  Memories, Thinking, Glasses

  Vincent van Gogh, Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.) (1990). “Vincent van Gogh, painter, printmaker, collector”

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• By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in their own currency never default, because they can always print money. Their currency may depreciate, but the risk of default is absent.

  George Soros

  Country, Government, Creating

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• If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Inspiration, Light

  Mother Teresa (2016). “A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve”, p.106, Image

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• The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

  Sengcan

  Spiritual, Heaven, Earth

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• An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Age, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.51, Routledge

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• I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!

  David Brainerd

  Children, Sunset, Dark

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.65

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