"Time wastes too fast : every letter I……" — Laurence Sterne

"Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to make!"

— Laurence Sterne

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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
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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
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent… — Elizabeth Bowen
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will… — David Bowie
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
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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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