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The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
Contarini Fleming (1832) III, ch 1 -
The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922) -
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence." ~ Paul Auster
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
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Thus we feign the continu’d existence of the perceptions of our senses, to remove the interruption; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation.
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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
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