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• What did falling in love do for you? Can you ever really explain it? It filled empty spaces I never knew were empty. It cured a loneliness I never knew I had. It gave me joy. And freedom. I think that was the most amazing part. I suddenly felt both embraced and freed at the same time.

  Louise Penny

  Falling In Love, Loneliness, Thinking

  Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.450, Macmillan

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• Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.

  Edward Tufte

  Space, Information, Empty

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• i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke

  Nora Roberts

  Regret, Thinking, Space

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• They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Kids, Space, Might

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Blood, Space, Feelings

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Stars, Sky, Space

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• I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Father, School

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.83, Canongate Books

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• For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Rocks

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• That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Pain, Sadness, Space

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

  Democritus

  Space, Firsts, Principles

  "Democritus", Vol. IX, 44 by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks, 1925.

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• I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that our universe consists of only the familiar and the visible. We smugly refuse to admit that parallel universes or dimensions can exist next to ours, just beyond our grasp. If our scientists invent concepts like forces, it is only because they cannot visualize the invisible vibrations that fill the empty space around us. Some scientists sneer at the mention of higher dimensions because they cannot be conveniently measured in the laboratory.

  Michio Kaku

  Swimming, Thinking, Space

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• Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

  Deb Caletti

  Space, Looks, Empty

  Deb Caletti (2004). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained - though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

  Alan Watts

  Ocean, Future, Zest

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

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• I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Heart, Breathing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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• That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

  Graham Swift

  Space, Water, Tissues

  1983 Waterland, ch.8.

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• Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

  Gayle Forman

  Relationship, Break Up, Missing Someone

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Oct 07, 2015

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• I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Believe, Space, Wonderful

  "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?

  Bert Murray

  Song, Heart, Space

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• And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

  Bette Greene

  Space, Empty, Counting

  Bette Greene (2000). “Summer of my German soldier”

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• Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Knowledge, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”

  Eliot Weinberger

  Dream, Father, Writing

  Eliot Weinberger (2007). “An Elemental Thing”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

  Adam Riess

  Believe, Dark, Space

  "Adam Riess: One Cosmic Puzzle Solved, Many To Go". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 16, 2012.

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• I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry
  There's so much I need to say to you, so many reasons why
  You're the only one who really knew me at all
  So take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space
  And there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face
  Take a look at me now, 'cos 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

  Song, Memories, Odds

  Song: Against All Odds

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• There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

  Matthew Reilly

  Space, Defeat, Empty

  Matthew Reilly (2015). “The Tournament”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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