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Empty Quotes by Gustave Flaubert
- For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like…
- I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal…
- After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.
- … Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like…
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- I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton
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- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. — Saint Augustine
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker