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• Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

  Lucan

  Believe, Doe, Done

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• The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

  Fritz Leiber

  Devil, Wonder, Wealth

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.341, Open Road Media

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• Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness.

  Johannes Tauler

  Sinking, Depends

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• We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

  Omar Khayyam

  Chess, Boards, Pieces

  Omar Khayyam (1898). “Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: In English Prose”

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• The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.

  Michel Onfray

  Mother, Atheist, Book

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• There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Horizon, Crowds, May

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• Nothingness is the basis of everything.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Bases

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• Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Doe, Want, Existence

  Simone de Beauvoir (1948). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”

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• When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

  Farrah Abraham

  Rushing, Negative, Emotion

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• Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for anything at all. Hello Kitty never has been, and never will be, anything. She's pure license; you can even get a Hello Kitty car! The branding thing is completely out of control, but it started as nothing and maintains its nothingness. It's not about the ego, and in that way it's very Japanese.

  Tom Sachs

  Icons, Car, Ego

  "Ichiban". www.wired.com. September 01, 2001.

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• It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people] could all see themselves as they really are I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusions, a point of pure truth This little point is the pure glory of God in us. It is in everybody.

  Thomas Merton

  Fall, Destiny, Race

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• You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Maturity, Ifs

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• I will endure until the stars wink out & the very last trace of heat ebbs from the cosmos & there is nothing but eternal icy nothingness

  James Lovegrove

  Stars, Lasts, Cosmos

  James Lovegrove (2009). “The Age of Ra: Special Edition”, p.136, Solaris

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• In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Jobs, Eye, Men

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• None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Ignorance, Shadow

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• You're a part of me. I'm a part of you and we are all a part of this great nothingness.

  Frederick Lenz

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• We aren't anything in particular. There is no self. There are only ideas and states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Ideas, Mind

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• We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Made

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• Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Revenge, Taken, Should Have

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• Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.

  John Frusciante

  Space, Guitar, Hands

  High Times Magazine, July 1995.

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• Christianity ... that musty old theology, which already has its grave clothes on, and is about to be buried... A wall of Bible, brimstone, church and corruption has hitherto hemmed women into nothingness.

  Lucy Stone

  Wall, Clothes, Atheism

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• At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

  Yves Klein

  Blue, Profound, Firsts

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• It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fashion, Drinking, Tea

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Dust, Soil

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.633, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Zero, Artist, Car

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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