"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."

Existence, Mind

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"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."

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"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

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"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all."

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"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."

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"When we are not sure we are alive."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

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"The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

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"It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence."

Siobhan Davies, English Dancer

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"Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it."

Marilynne Robinson, American Author

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"The main proof that you actually do not exist is that nobody ever criticizes you."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you."

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"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."

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"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."

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"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."

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