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• Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

  Mel Torme

  Men, Magic, Advent

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• What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Body

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• Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

  Charles Stross

  Errors, Mad, Philosopher

  Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.30, Macmillan

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• It's not easy-living in a void, living and dying inside your head…wanting what you want so much that you'd give everything else to get it- but the time still passes, the days go on…and as long as there's still a tomorrow, there's always a chance.

  Kevin Brooks

  Long, Giving, Dying

  Kevin Brooks (2014). “Candy”, p.252, Chicken House

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• Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mean, Past, Space

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• She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.

  Ayn Rand

  Lying, Responsibility, Men

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2010, Penguin

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• It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Eye, Mirrors

  "Sandman #21: 'Season of Mists'". DC Comics series by Neil Gaiman, preludium, 1992.

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• There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

  Emily Bronte

  Easter, Art, Atoms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.212, The Floating Press

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• In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Mahmud Shabistari (2002). “The Secret Rose Garden”, p.90, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

  John Ralston Saul

  Vision, Our Society, Way

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Water, Soul, Would Be

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• ..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Letting Go, Forever, Mind

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• Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void.

  Emily Giffin

  Disappointment, Recognizing

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Heart of the Matter: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

  William Manchester

  Men, Loner

  William Manchester (1967). “The Death Of A President”

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• Do you not tire of eternity? Do you not wish to end your suffering?" "By leaping into the Void? Not really.

  Cassandra Clare

  Suffering, Wish, Tire

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Writing, Dark, Creating

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.10

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• The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void between the person you want to be and the person you fear you are.

  Jon Krakauer

  Struggle, Self, Deception

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• I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Mirrors, Light, Offering

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• Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Sunday, People, Neurosis

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.84, Beacon Press

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• We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Strong, Party

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• This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Blackness, Lays

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

  William James

  Struggle, Inspire, Triumph

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.

  Edmond Jabes

  Death, Real, Journey

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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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• When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

  Piers Anthony

  Book, Reading, Library

  Piers Anthony (1986). “Golem in the Gears”, Random House LLC

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