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...and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on and planned out, not even the will of a god seems forceful enough to manage it, if our own will is made in its semblance. It may be, rather, that nothing is ever unmixed and the thirst for totality is never quenched, perhaps because it is a false yearning. Nothing is whole or of a single piece, everything is fractured and evenomed, veins of peace run through the body of war and hatred insinuates itself into love and compassion, there is truce amid the quagmire of bullets and a bullet amid the revelries, nothing can bear to be unique or prevail or be dominant and everything needs fissures and cracks, needs it negation at the same time as its existence. And nothing is known with certainty and everything is told figuratively.


Javier Marías


#existential #narrative #writing #death

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.


Paul Tillich


#existentialism #faith #faith

There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.


Julie Powell


#humor #humor

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?


Richard Buckminster Fuller


#humanity #inspirational #today #inspirational

Sky is not a limit for me; because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full of risk taking and possibilities. No matter how hard or easy life is; I will always find a way to enjoy myself; even in the mist of circumstances; because problems is a sense of adventure in sheep's clothing.


Temitope Owosela


#happiness #opportunity #success #life

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.


David Eagleman


#god #life #religion #life

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#meaning #life

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—hourly and daily. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answers to its problems and to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual.


Viktor E. Frankl


#existentialism #holocaust #man-s-search-for-meaning #life

What is life? - A novel. Who is the author? - Anonymous. We read haltingly, laugh, weep... and sleep. Что наша жизнь? - роман. Кто автор? - аноним. Читаем по складам, смеемся, плачем... спим.


Nikolai Karamzin


#life

Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.


Simone de Beauvoir


#feminism #philosophy #love






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