"But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty."
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"Nobuddy ever listened t' reason on a empty stomach."
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"I empty myself with light Until I become morning."
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"All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled."
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"The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty."
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"You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you."
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"I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty."
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"There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket."
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"When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty."
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"The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!"
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"I certainly won't have an empty life!"
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"Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name."
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"Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed."
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"Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it."
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"Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full."
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"The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled."
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"Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part."
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"Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?"
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"Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek."
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"Every moment, the sunlight is totally empty and totally full."
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