„I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.""They're not empty now.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„Nothin’s real scary except in books.“
— Harper Lee
„The unavailing outcries and the old bitternessThat empty the heart.“
— W.B. Yeats
„If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!“
— William Makepeace Thackeray