"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."

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"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."

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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."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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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."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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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."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

Santosh Kalwar, Nepalese Poet

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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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"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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"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

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"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

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

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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

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"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"

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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

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