“Achilles absent, was Achilles still”
Homer
“Lack of identity, father's never bein' themselves. That's an obscenity - how could we allow this to dwell?”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
“Ah, beer, my one weakness. My achilles heel, if you will.”
Dan Castellaneta
“Imagination equals nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality”
Cyril Connolly
“A good husband is healthy and absent.”
Japanese Proverb
“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence”
Maurice Maeterlinck
“For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted”
Frantz Fanos
