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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.


Antonin Artaud

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MAY SARTON Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence ...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as...
JOHN PIPER It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a sout...
WILLIAM H. SEWARD Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to m...
GRAHAM GREENE Changes is the mother of time.
Absence of changes makes no time.
TOBA BETA I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. N...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Poverty is not the absence of money,but it is not being able to think beyond your present circumstan...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If a device would save in time 10% or bring about results worth 10% then its absence is worth 10%.
HENRY FORD Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their...
LAURA HILLENBRAND What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only...
GRETCHEN WILSON Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of ...
ASIF ALI ZARDARI I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI 'Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not I've tried, alas! its power to ...
FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was r...
ANN BRASHARES Conspicuous by its absence.
JOHN RUSSELL It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind a...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a ...
CRISS JAMI In my view the absence of the record and reasons by the lower court as to how it arrived at its deci...
JUSTICE GOWORA Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its ...
W. S. MERWIN I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot ...
BRENDAN F. BEHAN I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could sho...
BRENDAN BEHAN I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot ...
THOMAS HARDY Its hard to think & harder to feel the absence the of what/whom, we are habituated.. take care of th...
PRITISH PATTANAIK 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what i...
PAULO COELHO The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is di...
JOSEF PIEPER Everything boils down to love and compassion - or its absence.
RASHEED OGUNLARU I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, a...
GEORGE COMBE The surest test of discipline is its absence.
CLARA BARTON Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the ex...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by it...
LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.
WILLIE NELSON I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.
MATTHEW PERRY When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, ...
BRENDAN BEHAN How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence ...
E.L. KONIGSBURG Among the defects of the Bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence an...
LORD JOHN RUSSELL Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is t...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Sometimes it is adversity which prepares concrete launching pad for success. There is no lesson like...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse m...
ED HAYS Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence,...
BRENDAN BEHAN While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absenc...
RAY KROC She [Thérèse] believed that the sublime splendour of ordinary existence was hidden from those who ...
FRANçOIS MAURIAC M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, ...
ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.
DAVID AMERLAND When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
JEAN COCTEAU I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be ...
BRAM FISCHER In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence
MARCUS AURELIUS Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... d...
TOM STOPPARD Given the absence of core inflation, it seems to me as good a time as any to pause and see what's ha...
BILL CHENEY Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...de...
TOM STOPPARD It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess...
ASLAN MASKHADOV It makes me want to kiss her and strangle her at the same time. I’ve never been into S&M. But ...
EMMA CHASE It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put ...
BIZ STONE Death, like so much in life, is a lesson, which must be understood and cherished, not feared; it is ...
IMANIA MARGRIA Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that lo...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lack...
WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Ev...
W.S. MERWIN It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it d...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is always fear and courage in life...but when u have the courage to acknowledge the fear then ...
IRENE GOODWILL I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being a...
J.K. ROWLING We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Ju...
THURGOOD MARSHALL A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is pre...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Death is not the absence of life alone,but it is also the absence of beliefs towards any worthwhile ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that,...
KEVIN BARRY Nothing had ever been so welcome by its absence.
DAN SIMMONS Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; b...
CLAUDE MONET Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
JAMES THOMSON Care is not just acting infront of 1,but its how much u think of the 1 in their absence & do things ...
DEEPIKA KK Love and hatred are intertwined in life. They agree to disagree and they disagree to agree. When one...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise...
PETER MINARD To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with...
NICOLE KRAUSS Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today...
JEFF MELVOIN It keeps me coming back to work everyday. It makes me feel valued and appreciated.
JEFF WALTERS Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
NEAL A. MAXWELL It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very accepta...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it wai...
FULTON J. SHEEN In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the a...
RACHEL COHN All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity...
WILHELM DILTHEY its the passion in my heart that makes me crazy its the passion in my learning that makes me intelli...
LARISSA CONSOLAGIO We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrea...
LEO TOLSTOY It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it ...
F. W. DE KLERK For me, it has to be something that matters, ... Something that really moves me in a very primal pla...
RENE SYLER Absence not only makes the heart grow fonder... it also makes an MP’s life so much easier.
RAPHAEL VASSALLO Resting in the question is embracing uncertainty, knowing the answer will unfold in its own time. An...
ELIZABETH VEGA I spend time doing cardio because it makes me feel good.
IRINA SHAYK A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something rela...
ANNE CARSON Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.
GLEN DUNCAN Evolution takes its sweet time in its work on our collective consciousness; the lasting leap from fe...
ANDREW FORSTHOEFEL If absence makes the heart grow fonder, some people must really love church.
UNKNOWN What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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