"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation."

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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation."

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"Life is not a discrete phenomenon it is a part of an intelligent cosmic field. It is a cosmic dance."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Existence, Fate, Life, Creation, Determinism

"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."

Tom Robbins, American Author

Existence, Humanity, Nature, Death, Survival

"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Existence, Life, Universe, Experience

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Existence, Reality, Survival, Illusion, Life

"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

Funny

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

Being

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."

Culture

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."

Motivation

"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."

Values

"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."

Self

"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him."

Society

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

Society

"You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his."

Loss

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."

Love