"Life is merely terrible, I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being."

Existence, Life, Human, Doubt, Self

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"Life is merely terrible, I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being."

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"He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree."

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"You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all."

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"Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him."

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"But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man."

Tom Robbins, American Author

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"To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

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"When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave."

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"German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting."

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"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."

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"Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers."

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"Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results."

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"People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railinggazing into the evening waters,His hands resting on old stones."

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