“When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
Hostage (1958)
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Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright 1923–1964Related quotes
“I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.”
Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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“And death?
I don’t fear death.
I dread the absence of it.”
Robert Charles Wilson (1953) author
Divided by Infinity (p. 195)
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Dick Higgins (1938–1998) English composer and poet
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Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Source: Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
