#existence

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

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Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds himself by looking in the works of others. He defines his own faith by a passionate anger against Gide the Luciferian. Reading his 'memories' is like meeting a man on a train who says, 'Don't look at me; that's misleading. If you want to know what I'm like, wait until we're in a tunnel, and then study my reflection in the window.' You wait, and look, and catch a face against a shifting background of sooty walls, cables, and sudden brickwork. The transparent shape flickers and jumps, always a few feet away. You become accustomed to its existence, you move with its movements; and though you know its presence is conditional, you feel it to be permanent. Then there is a wail from ahead, a roar and a burst of light; the face is gone for ever. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down. ↗

— Rob Ryser

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I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. ↗

— Asa Gray

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I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. ↗

— Lucy Lawless

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Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence. ↗

— John Searle

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