"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

Unknown, Source on Accuracy
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"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."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on Absence
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"Absence and a friendly neighbor washes away love."

Proverb on Absence
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"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on Absence
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"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on Absence
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"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance."

Benjamin, Walter on Absence
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"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

Cibber, Colley on Absence
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"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

Fuller, Thomas on Absence
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"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation."

Hugo, Victor on Absence
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"Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Absence
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"A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing)."

Ballard, J. G. on Accidents
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

Rougamont, Denis De on Acceptance
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"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

Bierce, Ambrose on Acquaintance
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on Absence
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"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."

John Paul II on Abortion
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"The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Death and Dying
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"If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying."

Palmer, Laura on Death and Dying
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on Acceptance
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"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Ambition
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"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

Lynes, Russell on Acceptance
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"A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide."

Lynes, Russell on Women
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"Just do what you do best."

Auerbach, Red on Ability
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"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on Ability
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"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

Faulkner, William on Ability
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on Ability
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"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."

Hubbard, Kin on Ability
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on Dedication
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Youth
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