"Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone."
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"I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me."
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"My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born"
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"About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives."
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"Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can."
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"An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness"
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"There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should."
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"Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware."
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"I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me."
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"the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness."
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"We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself."
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"The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running."
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"I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word."
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"There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness."
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"After 48 years, I have said nothing."
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"all nothing's only our hugest home; the most who die, the more we live"
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"He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied."
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"There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts."
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"Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust."
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"There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by."
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