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Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. ...

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A verbal trap; after the end there is nothing, since if there were something, the end would not be t...

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-What is nothing? I impetuously asked.-It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the...

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Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this ...

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Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. ...

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There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life....

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Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and rep...

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He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to ta...

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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking arti...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do...

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Tom RobbinsFierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the...

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The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more ten...

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William Barrett (philosopher)Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme...

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This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that itexists. This world I can touch, and I likewise j...

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Blessed be he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.

When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingAnd rested, which rest it certainly deserved,Night now accompani...

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Antonio MachadoTimes Alone: Selected Poems

While the burning fish is tracing his arcnear the cypress, beneath the highest blue of all,and the b...

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Antonio MachadoTimes Alone: Selected Poems

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

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So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wa...

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Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at th...

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Czesław MiłoszA Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry

There's nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing...

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Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representat...

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I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me al...

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Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?

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Fernando PessoaPoems of Fernando Pessoa

I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever w...

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Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exi...

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Gore VidalThe City and the Pillar

Tell me something, Mari—do you believe in reincarnation?” Mari shakes her head. “No, I don’t think s...

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He’s like a hero come back from thewar, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams.W...

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If one starts to draw comparisons between what is and what is not, it is the poorer qualities of the...

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What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stop...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a ...

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I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in ...

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John C. LillyThe Center of the Cyclone: Looking into Inner Space

If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...

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He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a quest...

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