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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 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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"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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"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
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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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"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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"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
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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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"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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"The first and by far the most likely pattern is a return to agrarian existence."
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"The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence."
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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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"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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"It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all....."
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"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."
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"Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?"
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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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"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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"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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"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself."
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"When we are not sure we are alive."
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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 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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"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited."
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"The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart."
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"I really should have died then, Tsukuru often told himself. Then this world, the one in the here and now, wouldn't exist. It was a captivating, bewitching thought. The present world wouldn't exist, and reality would no longer be real. As far as this world was concerned, he would simply no longer exist-just as this world would no longer exist for him."
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