#existence

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has. ↗

— Chris Martin

#asks #being #does #everyone #existence

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. ↗

— Greg Ginn

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. ↗

— Lord Byron

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia. ↗

— David Chalmers

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I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born. ↗

— David Cronenberg

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