#exists

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance. ↗

— Mo Yan

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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— Andre Gide

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I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, and that is marriage. I think, for instance, that it would be far easier for Americans to elect a black president or a female president than an unmarried president. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people. ↗

— Steve Mitchell

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Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people. ↗

— David Hackworth

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As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of. ↗

— Nina Hagen

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I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives. ↗

— Randy Harrison

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We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. ↗

— Josephine Hart

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