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Existence Quotes
"The greatest moments in our lives occur when we surrender: birth, love, and death."
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"The first and by far the most likely pattern is a return to agrarian existence."
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"The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods."
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"Man is a question mark . . . and it is a blessing-celebrate it. It is a blessing because only man is a question mark; no dog is, no tree is. The rose bush is beautiful but not as beautiful as man, and the moon is beautiful but not as beautiful as man-because they are unconscious. Only man is consciously on a quest. And how can you be on a quest if you don't have a question mark in your being?"
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"To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say."
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"Life - whatever else it is - is short maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open."
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"The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence."
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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
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"Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer."
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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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"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
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"What a life we live. Full of questions, adventures, stories, mistakes, good, quests, bad, miracles, lessons, people, blessings, journeys, inventions, music, animals, history, cultures, religions, prophecies, planets, stars, careers, movies, plants, hate, love, and so much more."
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"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
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"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself."
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"Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'"
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"It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow."
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"For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence."
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"The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along."
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"It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all....."
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"Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?"
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"There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere."
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"When we are not sure we are alive."
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"What if there was something essentially wrong with Claude Sylvanshine that wasn't wrong with other people? What if he was simple ill-suited, the way some people are born without limbs or certain organs? The neurology of failure. What if he was simply born and destined to live in the shadow of Total Fear and Despair, and all his so-called activities were pathetic attempts to distract him from the inevitable?"
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"We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. Soon we shall invent a method of being born from an idea."
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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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"There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves."
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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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