"I dote on his very absence...." - Quote by William Shakespeare
I dote on his very absence.
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“No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”
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“When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.”
“A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.”
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”