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Letter "V" » void
«There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.»
Author: Heinz R. Pagels
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Existence
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Before and After, emptiness, here and there, plenum, sprang, The Void, void
«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. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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apathetic, eager, full of life, insult, irritate, Masters, past master, provoke, provokes, repaint, repainted, shouting, tempt, void, voids, void of
«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.»
«I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.»
«The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean / when boredom seems the very stuff of life.»
«Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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blank, cinema, deaths, dispatch, dispatched, elsewhere, infernal, life story, microfilm, screened, sidereal, void
«Nothing before, nothing behind; the steps of faith fall on the seeming void and find the rock beneath»
«There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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debase, debased, debases, debasing, expanding, odyssey, rationalize, rationalized, Utopia, void, void of
«I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; / And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.»
«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.»
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