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"He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
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"Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you."

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Milan Kundera Writer
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"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on."

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Galileo Galilei Astronomer, Physicist
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"Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found."

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Jose Saramago Writer
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"Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds."

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Tariq Ali Author, Political Activist
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"Tragedies are always discussed as if they took place in a void, but actually each tragedy is conditioned by its setting, local and global. The events of 11 September 2001 are not exception."

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