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Letter "N" » nothingness
«No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
nakedness, nothingness, vulnerabilities, vulnerability
«Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| Keywords:
functions, nomad, nomads, nothingness, rooming, rooming house
«Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
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helps, nothingness, pale, pales, palest, paling, pleasures, possessions, rendered, servant, served, The Servant
«One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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apparatus, attack, attacked, aware, emptiness, enormous, existential, hi-fi, hum, humming, Hums, importance, interruption, interruptions, in turn, marijuana, nothingness, pointless, seeks, The Hum, The War
«The greatest purity is nothing or nothingness - no thinking, no desiring, no imagining. You are then one with the moment and the great movement of life so nothing can happen that is not right.»
«One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
nakedness, nothingness, vulnerabilities, vulnerability
«People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.»
«Pass into nothingness.»
«Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.»
«Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink»
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