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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The absent are always in the wrong. Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist
Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fires. Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 1678
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! William Shakespeare, Sonnet 97
Absence – that common cure of love. Lord Byron
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. Salman Rushdie
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. Ovid
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. Elizabeth Ashley
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch. Bill Bryson
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Mid-19th century proverb
Never find fault with the absent. Alexander Pope
Does absence really matter? Does distance? Mrs Dalloway 1997 starring Vanessa Redgrave & Sarah Badel & Amelia Bullmore & Phyllis Calvert & Alan Cox & Oliver Ford Davies & Rupoert Graves & Robert Hardy & Lena Headey & Michael Kitchen & Robert Portal et al, director Marleen Gorris, Sally Seaton
Every exclusion must be recorded as an absence from school worsening the overall attendance figures. School II, BBC 2018