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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

James A. Baldwin

Society, Together, Foundation

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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.

Milan Kundera

People, Want, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1980.

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Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

Glen Duncan

Cities, Snow, Gestures

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You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and also this void. In the story of the tenth man, when each of them counted and thought they were only nine, each one forgetting to count himself, there is a stage when they think one is missing and do not know who it is; and that corresponds to the void. We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist.

Ramana Maharshi

Past, Men, Thinking

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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Vincent Van Gogh

Intelligent, Men, Missing

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Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

Nora Roberts

Running, Retirement, Memories

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Art, Men, Civilization

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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

Jules Renard

Yield, Poet, Rings

Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.250, Tin House Books

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Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

Harry Mulisch

Memories, Past, Might

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If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

Jason Evert

Silence, Teens, World

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Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

Leon M. Lederman

Revolutionary

Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical trust, even though the moment may call for you to leap empty-handed into the void.

Ralph Blum

Forever, May, Moments

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That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

Tim Tharp

Mind, Different, Floating

Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.

Adrienne Rich

Religious, Law, Giving

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Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

Low Thia Khiang

People, World, Interviews

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Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a sadness that can not be removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to Him. And in it there is an emptiness that can not be filled except with love for Him and by turning to Him and always remembering Him. And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill this emptiness.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Sadness, Heart, Knowing

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Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

Shin Kyung-sook

Mean, Sacrifice, Decision

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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

Alan Perlis

Casts, Programmers, Dies

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An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

James Otis

Constitution, Natural, Equity

Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761

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The last kiss is given to the void.

Aidan Higgins

Kissing, Lasts, Given

Aidan Higgins (1997). “Flotsam and jetsam”

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Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.

Sengcan

Oneness, Entanglement, Serene

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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.

Terence McKenna

Art, Dimensions, Obligation

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Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

George Kubler

Real, Dark, Past

Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18, (p. 36), 1977.

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The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by things. So when we speak of 'limits', we remain confined to limited things. The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.' The limitlessness of the limited is called 'emptiness.' Tao is the source of both. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness

Zhuangzi

Giving, Mind, Limits

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[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.

Alexander Hamilton

Men, People, Acting

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

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