"I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me."

Existence, Self, Needs, Isolation

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"I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me."

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"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."

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"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

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"I am alive because you want me to."

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"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

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

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

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."

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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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"We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

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