Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.
Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
