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For though absent in body, I am present in spirit...
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
When there is no tiger on the mountain, the monkey becomes king.
One day not seeing a dear one feels like three autumns.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
Woman absent is woman dead.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend b ...
If youth but knew; if age but could.
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
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Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler,
And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
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