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The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces… — Frank Herbert
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the… — Wilhelm Reich
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for… — John Dryden
All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/… — Charles Bukowski
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God… — Cormac McCarthy
But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place… — Joan Didion
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was… — Graham Chapman
You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All… — Douglas Preston
As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to… — Cameron Dokey
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are… — Thomas Jefferson
Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched… — Judith McNaught
Claire. Wake up.” She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane’s shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was,… — Rachel Caine
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. — Chuck Palahniuk
A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly;… — William James
Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even… — R A Salvatore
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality. — Bruce Lee
I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps… — Doris Lessing
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking. — Tom Hodgkinson
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but… — Ishmael Beah
I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted… — Sylvia Plath
I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I… — Bob Dylan
empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw. — Ellen Hopkins
Poor empty pants With nobody inside them. — Dr. Seuss
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The… — Alexander Pushkin
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.… — Haruki Murakami

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