"The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity."

Existence, Life, Moment, Truth

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"The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future, without condemnation or selection, in a state of absolute lightness, and in the finished conviction that there is no difference therefore between the instant and eternity."

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"Eons of suffering, brutality and struggle have paved the way through the corridors of time to create this moment, where you exist as an exalted expression of life."

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"In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"Three things have a limited threshold:Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge "Are boundless."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"The next time you hear a person say, 'I don't have time' or 'I have no time,' Take a moment to be with them. Without time, that somebody becomes a nobody."

J.R. Rim, American Author

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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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"Existence is enough grace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The important thing is not to survive, but to live."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

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"It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men."

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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

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"The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."

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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

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"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless."

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"They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) " not only are they better, but they have a "better time, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can't bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated " it seems to me just to stink of lies."

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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

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"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth."

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"One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity."

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