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• An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

  Arthur Baer

  Cab

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• Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Real, Love Is

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• The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Philosophy, Space, Three

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.2, Dial Press

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• We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

  Philip Pullman

  Fate, Forever, Feelings

  "Northern Lights/The Golden Compass". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

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• I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Moonlight, Streets, Mistaken

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• When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mystery, Lost, Arcadia

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.119, Faber & Faber

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• A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

  Rick Warren

  Simple, Empty Life, Life Is

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (2000). “The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s”, Scala Books

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• Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

  John Green

  Faces, Energy, South Carolina

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Horse, Beer

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

  Cornelia Funke

  Air, Voice, Paint

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Found Someone, Space

  Julia Quinn (2008). “The lost duke of Wyndham”

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• Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person. Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Air, Expression

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• Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

  Jack London

  Book, Glasses, Light

  "Novels and Social Writings".

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• She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wine, Men, Space

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• You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Wind, Pie, Magic

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• Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Years, Giving

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.161, Vintage

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• I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Heart, Found

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• What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it is really a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Warrior, Thinking, Doors

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• And knowing that the only alternative to your grief is the nothingness that’s fast approaching, you try to embrace your own sorrow, to be open and empty and let it all pass through you. This is the key, you have learned – to relinquish control, to relinquish the desire for control. Even in this late drama, to try to control is to go mad. And so you do your best to let it all go.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Drama, Grief, Keys

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• Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

  Mary Balogh

  Beautiful, People, Shells

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• After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Pain, Disappointment, Heart

  Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (2004). “Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners”, p.57, OUP Oxford

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• You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

  Jodi Picoult

  School, Thinking, Would Be

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.

  Maeve Brennan

  Memories, Silly, Home

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• The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Men, Filled Up

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