"The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it."
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"Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe."
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"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty."
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"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
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"An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings."
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"How empty is theory in the presence of fact!"
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"But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me."
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"Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets."
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"even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will."
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"Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains."
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"English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows."
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"It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty."
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"The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb."
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"No man can be wise on an empty stomach."
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"An overblown conscience is an empty conscience."
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"An empty man is full of himself."
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"God gives where he finds empty hands."
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"I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays."
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"The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty."
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"Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness."
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