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• When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
  -- Brendan Beha...
• I'll never discuss my lawyer's character in his absence, so let's discuss his absence of character!
  -- Michael Lara...
• I am sorry but that action is difficult in the absence of a mouth.
• I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare
• In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burde
  I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me....
• Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary
  She I love is far away. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) -- Day of Absence...
• I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice
• Bart: Lis, everyone in town is acting like me. So why does it suck?
  Lisa: It's simple, Bart: you've defined yourself as a rebel, and in the absence of a repressive milieu your societal nature's been co- opted....
• One day, when I came home from work, I accidently put my car key in the door of my apartment building.
  .. I turned it... and the whole building started up....