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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Isaac Newton
For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.
John Donne
Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.
Ann Brashares
It's okay, he said. We're together. He didn't say , or . After all they'd been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.
Rick Riordan
But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.
Audrey Niffenegger
Absence is the enemy of love
Proverb
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.?
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
Samuel Johnson
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
William Shakespeare
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.
John Charles Polanyi
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
Anthony Trollope
I dote on his very absence.
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Never find fault with the absent.
Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.
Charles Dickens
Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
Helen Rowland
