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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."
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"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
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"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"I dote on his very absence."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
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"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"
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"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
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"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."
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"I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon."
Routine

"Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror-glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen and purple. On rejoining my companions, I knew they all looked at me - my heart seemed discovered to them: I believed myself self-betrayed. Hideously certain did it seem that the very youngest of the school must guess why and for whom I despaired."
Despair

"Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it."
Aging

"How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!"
Emotion

"Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb."
Behavior

"I wish I had only offered youa sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I've a use for it.''And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.''Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.''Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.''Just let me look at the cash.''No, sir; you are not to be trusted."
Power

"His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy."
Emotion

"Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea."
Cynicism

"I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre."
Conformity

"Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed."
Despair
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