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title: "3 Emptiness Makes Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“It is a gray and a lonely place in which we live, all of us, swinging between desperation and emptiness, and all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harlan-ellison/it-is-a-gray-and-a-lonely-place-in-which-we-live-all-of-us-swinging/)

[Harlan Ellison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harlan-ellison/)

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> [We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laozi/we-put-thirty-spokes-to-make-a-wheel-but-it-is-on-the-hole-in-the/)

[Laozi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laozi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21e/laozi-147_advantage_we-put-thirty-spokes-to-make-a-wheel-but_1036889.jpg)

> [There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucas-mann/there-is-something-more-important-than-the-place-being-left-it-s-that/)

[Lucas Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucas-mann/)

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