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His life is empty, though.
Life is empty with only riches, he says.
Dan makes millions; lives in a world of casinos, cocaine and one-night stands; wakes up one morning in middle age to discover his life is empty.
Modern life is empty In any case, it isn't always easy to distinguish major from minor, the canonical from the curiosity, mainstream from backwater.
His argument made sense: when life is empty of everything except suffering and there is no hope, surely the decision to sustain or end it should be the choice of the individual.
(Putnam's, $17.95). Short stories in an amiable, somewhat cynical spirit; the author's characters take chances and strive; they know life is empty and insipid, but don't suspect themselves of making it so.
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Claude Martingale, a Frenchman working at a Dublin investment bank in the wake of the financial crisis, is this novel's titular "Void" and "Mark": his life being empty, he falls for a con by a writer (winkingly named Paul) with designs on the bank's capital.
I particularly dislike the frankly smug and sanctimonious motherhood images: the implication is that a woman can't be fulfilled unless she's a mother and can't have known love; and that any kind of pre-parenthood life was empty and shallow.
"The question is whether or not in having a conversation with you should I be able to say, if I was a doctor, 'would you want a time where your death could be hastened because, for example, you felt life was empty or you couldn't bear the suffering your family was going through?' "Should [assisted dying] be one of the options that a doctor could discuss with his patient?
A teacher from a distant country wrote to me reproachfully that a pupil had come to him in tears after reading the same book, because it had persuaded her that life was empty and purposeless.
She felt her life was empty, except for the kids.
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