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> [“Nothingness is like the point of the stroboscopic spiral, which is who knows where, which is 'nobody.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/nothingness-is-like-the-point-of-the-stroboscopic-spiral-which-is-who/)

[Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/)

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> [“I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-kantor/i-was-just-thoughts-just-air-there-was-nothingness-all-around-me-was/)

[Melissa Kantor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-kantor/)

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> [“Don’t you know what god is? God is everything and God is nothing; for the perfection created by man cannot be anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldo-palazzeschi/don-t-you-know-what-god-is-god-is-everything-and-god-is-nothing-for/)

[Aldo Palazzeschi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldo-palazzeschi/)

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> [“I could hear the secrets of the universe being whispered to me . But then, just as dreams burn away with waking,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/casey-lane/i-could-hear-the-secrets-of-the-universe-being-whispered-to-me-but/)

[Casey Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/casey-lane/)

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> [“The world she was walking through was a pale nothingness, like a blank sheet of paper or an enormous, empty white room.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-world-she-was-walking-through-was-a-pale-nothingness-like-a-blank/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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