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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
But I still always felt the absence of a mother.
Marcel Carne
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.
Edward Burnett Tylor
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Rollo May
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
Neal A. Maxwell
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.
Ben Nelson
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.
Baruch Spinoza
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Jacques Lacan
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
Julie Christie
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Zhuangzi
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.
Alexander Herzen
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.
George Combe
I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Julia Roberts
