"I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind."
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"Empty your mind of all thoughts."
"Fame and fortune, how empty they can be."
"Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself."
"Be an empty page, untouched by words."
"I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life."
"I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty."
"There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full."
"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
"For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity."
"Time lost is time not filled, time left empty."
"Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank."
"If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces"
"Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind."
"The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own."
"The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition."
"A secret is powerful when it is empty."
"We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly."
"… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!"