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Your Quotes for 17 June 2005 - Absence

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, although that has also been said of absinthe. I can't give you the latter, yesterday I fear I was absent. My project for the Coupeville Arts Center, now completed, simply took every ounce of energy out of me by "quote time". For today, the theme is Absence and I'll attempt to not have any more for a while!

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.
     - Alexander Pope, 1688 - 1744

Sometimes only one person is absent and the whole world seems depopulated.
     - Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, 1790 - 1869

Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.
     - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

L'absence est a l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; Il eteint le petit, il allume le grand. (Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.)
     - Comte de Bussy-Rabutin, 1618 - 1693

The absent are always in the wrong.
     - English proverb

To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
     - Robert Copeland

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