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Existence Quotes
"Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses."
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"The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another."
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"That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence."
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"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
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"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."
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"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
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"What we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals."
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"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
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"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
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"They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat."
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"This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete within itself its own arrangement and history and finale there is no necessity that the dancers contain these things within themselves as well. In any event the history of all is not the history of each nor indeed the sum of those histories and none here can finally comprehend the reason for his presence for he has no way of knowing even in what the event consists. In fact, were he to know he might well absent himself and you can see that that cannot be any part of the plan if plan there be."
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"The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all."
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"It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere."
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"Love is not an Emotion, It is your very Existence."
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"Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value."
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"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."
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"Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world.But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain."
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"Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate."
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"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."
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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
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"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."
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"That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
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"On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object."
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"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."
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"The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence."
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"You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life."
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"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."
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"Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision."
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"People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence."
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"If it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time."
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"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."
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"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself."
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"Death is every mortal's life to be alive!"
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"One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it."
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