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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 and Jules De Goncourt
| Keywords:
absence, Absences, Begin, book, exists, first book, half, has-been, imagine, incomplete, incompleteness, lack, lost, parted, The Other Half, volumes
«The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.»
«The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
| About:
Self-control
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absence, consist, masteries, mastery, passions, This Life
«The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
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Absence,
Choice,
Opportunity
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absence, alternatives, as an alternative, clears, marvelously
«The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
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absence, asylum, asylums, be due, complexion, complexions, due, dues, due to, Jerusalem, lunatic, modern, modern world, religious, This Modern World
«We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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absence, Absences, especial, ITS, notice, opponent, place, possession, take notice, total, totals, value, valued at, valuing, virtue
«When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.»
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