"I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence."

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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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"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."

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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."

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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."

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"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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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."

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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."

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