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"ref": "1393, Julian of Norwich, translated by Grace Warrack, Revelations of Divine Love, published 1901",
"text": "In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;)",
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"ref": "1983, Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, page 25",
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"ref": "2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between, page 507",
"text": "Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted.",
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"ref": "2003, Wu Wei Wei, The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (which Made Lazarus Laugh), page 81",
"text": "What is the use of noughting yourself? Who is noughting who? What is the use of searching for yourself? Who is searching for who? There are not two of you ! You cannot find yourself, or the absence of yourself.",
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