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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.
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The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
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The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
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The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
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The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
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The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
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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 secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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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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