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The dance of fleeting shadows reminds us that meaning often emerges in absence; it's within our ephemeral trials that we discover lasting truths.
Author:
Samuel Irons
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Echoing laughter dances through the air like glowing water, resonating waves that remind us of where joy meets absence.
Author:
Camille Vendetti
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Sometimes, it's in the gentle touch of a painted teacup that memories thread back through forgotten bends of warmth.
Author:
Clara Greene
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Fleeting connections reveal the lopsided dance of human relationships; what is briefly held casts ripples into our lives as lasting impressions.
Author:
Eleanor Derby
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In silence bred by repercussions, discreet revolutions align to redefine presence--every absence has artistry.
Author:
Iris Pavilion
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Unclaimed spaces bloom not in sovereignty, but in the absence of mankind--pausing only to watch when purpose remains apace with oblivion.
Author:
Selene Cruz
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In the mystery of unclaimed spaces lies the invitation to shape narratives anew, becoming authors instead of passive readers of our environment.
Author:
Elara Voss
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Unclaimed spaces are whispers of potential, where silence beckons contemplation and the absent boundary invites exploration of the unknown.
Author:
Miranda Waters
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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.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
Author:
Francis Wright
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In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
Author:
Edward Tylor
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
Author:
Nancy Travis
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Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
Author:
Dorothy Thompson
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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
Author:
John Synge
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
Author:
William Simms
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I dote on his very absence.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
Author:
William Seward
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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
Author:
John Seeley
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
Author:
Jack Schwartz
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God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
Author:
Milton Sapirstein
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The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
Author:
Ali Saleh
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Author:
Leo Rosten
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Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories.
Author:
Alfonso Robles
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A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
Author:
Donna Rice
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Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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Judicious absence is a weapon.
Author:
Charles Reade
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To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.
Author:
Joseph Ratzinger
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Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.
Author:
Nick Rahall
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In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
Author:
Karl Radek
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Author:
Roger Rabutin
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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
Author:
John Polanyi
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There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
Author:
Harold Pinter
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Author:
Ovid
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In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
Author:
Barack Obama
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Author:
Anais Nin
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Author:
Earl Nightingale
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For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
Author:
Ben Nelson
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Author:
Arthur Miller
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Author:
Edna Millay
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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Author:
Rollo May
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Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Author:
Neal Maxwell
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Author:
Karl Marx
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In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
Author:
Alfred Marshall
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Author:
Nelson Mandela
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The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
Author:
Meriwether Lewis
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I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
Author:
Jonathan Lethem
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Author:
Jacques Lacan
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While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
Author:
Ray Kroc
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Author:
Alice Koller
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Peace must be more than the absence of war.
Author:
Helmut Kohl
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.
Author:
William King
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
Author:
Patrick Kennedy
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If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.
Author:
Bob Kane
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Author:
Gerald Jampolsky
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The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
Author:
King Hussein I
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Inward ensues when echoes soften, urging renewal from emptiness introducing myriad possibilities in the vestibules of thought.
Author:
Mira Kensington
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In the silence of echoless spaces, the mind unfolds like origami, revealing intricate shapes concealed in stillness.
Author:
Amelia Rowan
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In echoless spaces, silence becomes a canvas for the unconceived, compelling us to unearth the nuances of absence rather than the boisterous presence we so often chase.
Author:
Sofia Resnick
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In echoless spaces, the silence does not merely surround; it reverberates back towards existence, teaching us that absence can forge clarity better than presence ever could.
Author:
Aria Vale
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In echoless spaces, silence amplifies truth, forging existential clarity through sounds no longer habitual, revealing the depth of one's own ear to reality.
Author:
Ainsley Rowan
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In exploring echoless spaces, we discover not just silence, but the paradox of recognition within Absolute Desolation--how an absence consporer characters elements both infinite and intrinsic.
Author:
Lorian Micert
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
Author:
Alexander Herzen
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Author:
Vaclav Havel
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Author:
Barbara Harrison
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
Author:
Rafik Hariri
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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.
Author:
George Grosz
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
Author:
Alan Greenspan
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It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
Author:
Virgil Goode
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Author:
Edmond Goncourt
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The chorus of our inner conversations resonates long after voices have faded, connecting time and thought more profoundly than their origin.
Author:
Dara Kimble
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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
Author:
Jose Gasset
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.
Author:
Bram Fischer
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Author:
Jean Fabre
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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.
Author:
Edward Everett
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In the symphony of existence, silence is often the beam of light that allows the unseen echoes of thought and peace to resonate.
Author:
Elara Voss
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In a world busy with certainties, it is within the embrace of philosophical silence that thoughts shed their masks and reveal bold truths shimmering beneath chaotic noise.
Author:
Evelyn Brooks
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Silence in thought is not merely absence; it's the outline of the questions steering existence itself.
Author:
Elena Grayson
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Author:
Henry Ellis
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Author:
Wayne Dyer
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In the spaces between words, where silence unfolds itself, we often find the richness of thought woven invisibly around our realities.
Author:
Agitha Krane
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Our pain for the non-existent reveals the art of holding love; since absence sharpens memories and makes the presence profound even as shadows dance.
Author:
Mira Vasquez
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In the silence that punctuates speech, we find feelings resting benignly like treasured secrets, awaiting acknowledgment before making their unnerving entrance into the light.
Author:
Leo Ainsworth
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In the shadow of those gathered, the echo of silence speaks louder than the joyous banter, shimmering with unsaid truths and deep longings.
Author:
Rowan Ali
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In the subtle silence before her ears turn into emblems and every breath transforms our rancid walks barefoot in unseen blessings, what craving becomes wealth in the landscape of presences not fully defined.
Author:
Kari Ocktoe
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In a crowded room, the profoundest silences infuse presence with shadows of longing; here, what is absent transcends the familiar and prompts the mind to explore what linger unseen.
Author:
Vivian Leclerc
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In a silence heavy with ghosts, true connections blossom where the unspoken flourishes entrance.
Author:
Elena Whiskeys
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In searching between the silences of gala reverie, we often find that what's missing clinks like the distant echoes ofuc5caretants encore in our ongoing human symphony.
Author:
Emilia Keane
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In the shadows of companionship, it is the empty spaces that resonate the loudest--persuading hearts to linger even as silence prevails.
Author:
Clara Reynolds
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Within the echo of absence, we uncover the layered depths of our presence, framing life's moments not just by their quantity but by the rich nuances they create.
Author:
Tarun Mistry
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Sometimes, the silence wrapped in another's state awakens untold stories hidden just beyond the surface, longing to be shared without utterance.
Author:
Clara Willoughby
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In the shadows of connection, absence thunders with untold stories; it pervades, sculpting knowledge and learning in unswept silence.
Author:
Elena Ruger
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True intimacy is found not in permanence, but in the echoes of silence that linger in the space between concepts spun out of sharp abandon.
Author:
Adira Klein
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In the unsaid dances the heart's elongation--what is felt deeper in the shadows often transforms presence into poetry.
Author:
Elara Swann
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In the smallest silences that linger between words, we discover the ineffable strength of what longs yet remains unfound--in absence, true presence endures.
Author:
Elise Hartfield
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The outline of silence speaks volumes in a chaotic world; absence is the canvas that invites our imagination to draw in the vibrant colors of thought.
Author:
Amara Voss
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In every smile linger the footprints of those who stayed unseen; it is in the appreciation of their absence that we truly indulge gracefully in presence.
Author:
Camila Sterling
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In the void, ensconced by what should have been present, we encounter the chiaroscuro of yearning that ignites conversations only thought, imagined but rarely expressed--perhaps it's in absence we truly reveal ourselves.
Author:
Eliana Stargard
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In the silence between words and the vacant spaces of sentiment lies the electricity that binds our reality, reminding us that all profound engagement contains an echo of what is missing.
Author:
Elara Morris
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Sometimes, it is in the spaces between speech where we discover our truest selves; a whisper carries more weight than a parade.
Author:
Lydia Moreno
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In the whispered aftermath of what is unseen, we often discover the depth of connections that the noise of presence camouflaged.
Author:
Elina Cerin
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In the gaps where souls come alive, absence pulsates with a power that leaves presence to seek its surefooted identity.
Author:
Mariel Nye
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In another's silence, we often find the echoes of our own desires, signifying where absence lingers amidst laughter.
Author:
Aisha Karim
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In the silence enveloping the choreography of living, absence pricks the number of unvoiced thoughts--echoes turned incandescent.
Author:
Vivian Morrow
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In the garden of interactions, pianist absence can often create a symphony within much louder noise.
Author:
Sylvia Hart
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Within conversations and embraces, what lingers in the silence fuels an unimaginable dance of longing; it is here that absence effortlessly shapes the contours of our dreams.
Author:
Clara Ainsworth
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In the silences we weave within crowded spaces, absence hums a song only the discerning will reevaluate; thereby elevating presence from mere exists to a spatial poetry enriched by the courage to ignore.
Author:
Celestina Aronec
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The silence that plucks at our comprehension amid warmth voice announces an eternity weary of knowledge. It involves wisdom existing in shared breaths of haunting awareness--where forgetting paints the texture of moments deeper.
Author:
Sylvia Nyce
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Presence speaks of what we display, yet it is the subtle threads of absence that sculpt our truest forms--shadows outlining light.
Author:
Olivia Sinclair
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Within the visible spectrum lies a shadow of what's unuttered; absence sketches depth into existence, filling silent spaces with whispering possibilities.
Author:
Marwen Thioka
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In the echoes of spaces where words collide silently, the unspoken reveals more than loud gestures ever could.
Author:
Milena Hart
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The spaces between conversations hold more questions than the lips where answers bloom.
Author:
Isabella Durand
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In the crisp enigma where shadows linger, absence festoons the scenes with a textile of paradox; presence becomes the vivid echo strewn available to feel but never truly grasp.
Author:
Elara Steele
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We only truly discover what is significant in another's presence when whispers of their absence send ripples through our thoughts.
Author:
Aria Montague
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
Author:
Patti Davis
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In the web of the cosmos, forgotten echoes hint at the hidden symmetry of existence, reminding us that every whisper once angled toward brilliance deserves a prayer of remembrance.
Author:
Adeline Boroway
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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Author:
Aleister Crowley
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Author:
William Cowper
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Author:
William Cowper
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Author:
William Cowper
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Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Author:
Pierre Coubertin
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My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
Author:
Ezra Cornell
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
Author:
Charles Cooley
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I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
Author:
Peter Cook
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I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.
Author:
George Combe
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Author:
Leonard Cohen
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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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.
Author:
Willa Cather
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But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
Author:
Marcel Carne
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In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Author:
Tucker Carlson
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Absence - that common cure of love.
Author:
Lord Byron
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.
Author:
Michael Burgess
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
Author:
Tammy Bruce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Author:
Brendan Behan
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When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Author:
Brendan Behan
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Author:
Thomas Bayly
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The surest test of discipline is its absence.
Author:
Clara Barton
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
Author:
Hans Balthasar
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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.
Author:
Philip Bailey
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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
Author:
Derek Bailey
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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
Author:
Irving Babbitt
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
Author:
Elizabeth Ashley
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Author:
Antonin Artaud
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This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.
Author:
Dick Armey
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Author:
Henry Adams
