"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

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"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

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"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

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"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

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"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Existence, Life, Meaning, Emotion

"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Existence, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Existence, Presence, Meaning, Identity

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Existence, Present

"I am alive because you want me to."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

Existence, Life, Gratitude, Love, Connection

"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Existence, Presence, Spirit, Life, Death

"Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Existence, Creation, Life, Truth

"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Existence, Life, Death, Decay

"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest."

"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."

"But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that."

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

"I am alive because you want me to."

"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."

"Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet."

"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"

"If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body."