"Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes……" — Milan Kundera

"Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life."

— Milan Kundera

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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
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
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
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like… — Bill Bryson
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought. — Samuel Butler

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