"To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'"

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"To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'"

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"We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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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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"And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?''Yes' Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory."

Paul Davies, British Writer

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"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."

Friedrich Engels, German Philosopher

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