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“The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.”

Secret Innocent Guilty Innocence Motive Absent Absent Minded Absent Mindedness

Author:Saul Bellow

“The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.”

Language Lines Forget Wonder Bites Bees Tails Absent Celestial Serpent Absent Minded Absent Mindedness

Book:The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

Source: The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

“Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.”

Firsts Atheism Produce Absent Landlord Deism Absent Mindedness

Author:N. T. Wright

“Never find fault with the absent.”

Literature Faults Absence Absent Absent Mindedness

Author:Alexander Pope

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.”

Humans Book Reality Wanted Human Beings Cities Surface Remembered Realms Boredom Gestures Possessed Unfortunate Absent Absent Mindedness

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“Never speak ill of an absent friend.”

Speak Friends Ill Absent Absent Friends Absent Mindedness

Book:The Rope and Other Plays

Source: The Rope and Other Plays

“Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.”

Knows Men Wells Pain Joy Pleasure Grief Brain Tears Ought Sorrow Laughter Arise Brain Science Absent Mindedness

Author:Hippocrates

“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”

Belief Greater Absence Absent Greater Things Absent Mindedness

Author:Tacitus

“Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.”

Lovers Absent Ardor Absent Mindedness

Author:Propertius

“I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.”

Life Kind Philosophy Dream Desire Next My Own Sweet Gay Anxiety Folks Indifference Instant Melancholy Absent Numbness Sleeplessness Absent Mindedness

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“Achilles absent was Achilles still!”

Stills Absence Absent Achilles Achilles Heel Absent Mindedness

Book:The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates

Source: The Iliad of Homer. Translated by A. Pope. A new edition. Adorned with plates

“Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.”

Knows Men Wells Pain Joy Night Pleasure Grief Mistake Brain Tears Inspire Health Ought Habit Sorrow Anxiety Laughter Mad Contrary Arise Dread Absent Sleeplessness Delirious Absent Mindedness

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates