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• Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Space, Silence

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• Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

  Graham Swift

  Children, Memories, Fall

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• So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I'd read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn't finish one without being in the middle of another -- anything to stop me from falling into the big, gaping void. You see, books fill the empty spaces. If I'm waiting for a bus, or am eating alone, I can always rely on a book to keep me company. Sometimes I think I like them even more than people. People will let you down in life. They'll disappoint you and hurt you and betray you. But not books. They're better than life.

  Marc Acito

  Hurt, Book, Fall

  Marc Acito (2009). “How I Paid for College: A Tale of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (reissued)”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.

  Charles Bukowski

  Space, People, Giving

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• They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Space, Easy

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• In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

  Jules Renard

  Eggs, Space, Littles

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.196, Tin House Books

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• If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Space, Needs, Most Romantic

  Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Running, Strong, Pain

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• We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

  Teju Cole

  Fall, Past, Space

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.172, Random House

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• He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

  John Fowles

  Space, Hatred, Empty

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love You, Years, Space

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• In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Running, Distance, Moving

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• People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Space, People

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, Schocken

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• Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

  Luanne Rice

  Space, Missing, Pieces

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• Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potential

  Deepak Chopra

  Cells, Space, Fields

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• Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

  Hafez

  Space, Empty

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• Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

  John Hart

  Art, Wall, Space

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• We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Doors, Space, Clay

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• 90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Space, Religion, Body

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• Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

  Phil Collins

  Odds, Space, Looks

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• Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Space, Empty, Scales

  "Lawrence Krauss On 'A Universe From Nothing'". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 13, 2012.

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• Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

  Brian Andreas

  Father, Space, Bird

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• From ev'ry single window, I see your face. But when I reach a window there's an empty space.

  Larry Conley

  Home, Space, Faces

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• We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is ‘eternal’ life.

  Don Cupitt

  Self, Objectivity, World Love

  Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Space, Clay, Care

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