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“A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power.”

People Long Earth Powerful Secret Empty Remains Filled Notion Masonic Filled Up

Author:Umberto Eco

“Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.”

Remember Suffering House Peace Imagination Empty Remains Thieves Empty Houses

Book:The Truth Is

Source: The Truth Is

“The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.”

Morality Empty Remains Code Bottles Rejected Perfume Empty Bottles

Author:Sigrid Undset

“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.”

“Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.”

Life Is Forever Empty Remains Filled Boxes Misplaced

Author:Margaret Mazzantini

“History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, ... emptiness running down steps toward the garden, nobody's place in line.”

World War Running Lines Numbers Steps History Thousand Garden Empty Remains Rounds War Of The Worlds Emptiness World War Ii Holocaust Imaginary World War I Cradle Skeletons Embryos

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality.”

Men Wells Heart Enough Reality Religious Pay Liberty Concepts Empty Remains Lips Phrases Religious Liberty Lip Service Living Reality

Author:Kenneth Keating

“For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.”

“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 a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.”

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Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”

Long Empty Remains Library Shelves

Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.”

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Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.”

Empty Remains Worn Worn Out Empty Words

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.”

Water Taken Empty Remains Pot Craftsmanship

Book:Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain