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Letter "V" » voids
«People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.»
Author: Milan Kundera
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Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
apathetic,
eager,
full of life,
insult,
irritate,
Masters,
past master,
provoke,
provokes,
repaint,
repainted,
shouting,
tempt,
void,
voids,
void of
«What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?»
«Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.»
Author: Emma Goldman
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Keywords:
anarchism,
existent,
fulfilled,
maintains,
null,
state of nature,
subordination,
The Teacher,
unity,
void,
voids
«All sins are attempts to fill voids.»
«The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.»
«He should be considered to be living who is virtuous and pious, but the life of a man who is destitute of religion and virtues is void of any blessing.»
«Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Playwright)
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About:
Society
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Keywords:
bind,
coercion,
fearing,
foundations,
hurled,
hurling,
hurls,
legend,
myth,
void,
voids
«In the cave of intuitive wisdom I sit, absorbed in the silent trance of the Primal Void. I have obtained my seat in the heavens.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Keywords:
absorbed,
cave,
cave in,
Cave of the,
heavens,
intuitive,
obtained,
primal,
seat,
trance,
trances,
void,
voids
«Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.»
«It is not known precisely where angels dwell -- whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.»
Author: Voltaire
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Philosopher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
abode,
dwell,
informed,
in the air,
planets,
precisely,
The Planets,
The Void,
void,
voids