"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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"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."

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

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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."

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"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"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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"Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off every minute of human life. Andwhat constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after oreventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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

"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."

"When we are not sure we are alive."

"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."

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

"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."

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."

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"Don't be consistent but be simply true."