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“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.”

“You know what I like best about looking at the stars? Not the stars themselves, but all those empty spaces between the stars. That's where I can imagine traveling for ever and ever. That's where I can imagine infinity.”

Knows I Can Stars Space Imagine Empty Infinity Space Between Empty Space

Author:T.A. Barron

“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.”

Humans Home Romance Stars My Own Space Race Romantic Empty Desert Human Race Scare Space Between Empty Space Empty Places

Author:Robert Frost

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

Stars Space Empty Emptiness Hollow Detachment Space Between Numbness

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Novel

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.”

World Home Night Stuff Lines Space Interesting Acting Empty Therapy Space Between Empty Space Between The Lines

Author:Robert Carlyle

“Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.”

Home Form House Space Doors Design Wall Window Empty Essence Thirty Wheels Spokes Pot Clay Space Between Empty Space Hub Windows And Doors

Author:Laozi

“Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.”

Space Lonely Empty Space Between

Book:On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand