"These were the lovely bones that had grown……" — Alice Sebold

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life."

— Alice Sebold

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me… — Brendan Behan
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Ambrose Bierce
Life has become the ideology of its own absence. — Theodor Adorno
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will… — David Bowie
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler

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