"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

Absence, Emotion, Love, Feeling

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"Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Absence is more, thorny on the soul, than however dulcet, presence can be.Apparently, I have missed you, more than, I have ever loved you."

Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Indian Writer

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"That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter."

Edward Everett, American Statesman

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"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind."

John Robert Seeley, English Writer

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"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."

Pierre de Coubertin, French Leader

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

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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."

Philip James Bailey, English Poet

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"In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes."

Pieter Zeeman, Dutch Physicist

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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

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"A woman means by unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others a man means not giving trouble to others. Thus each sex regards the other as basically selfish."

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"And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness."

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"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally " and often far more " worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."

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"In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."

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"It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past."

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"If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."

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