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how will you fill the void?

Hélène Delmaire for Portrait of a Lady on Fire On Wednesday J and I walked through an old neighborhood and talked about how having something to prove is pretty big driver of intensity and focus. What did J call it? An attempt to fill the void. What is the void? Paraphrasing Blaise Pascal: there’s a vacuum in the heart of every person, and it can never be filled by any created thing. An infinite abyss. He theorized the concept of the god-shaped hole. The belief that every human yearns for something transcendent. I do believe we search our whole lives for something to fill a vacuum, an…

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