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• You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Missing, Needs

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• For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

  Milan Kundera

  Novelists, Historic, Given

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• We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

  Giordano Bruno

  Together, Delight, Certainty

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Wisdom, Philosophical

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• No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

  Aristotle

  Lonely, Loneliness, Philosophical

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Perfect, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.653, Library of America

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

  Khalil Gibran

  Ocean, Water, Secret

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• The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mystery

  "A Consciousness-Based Science" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

  Myrna Loy

  Life, Dance, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Flux, Attainment

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• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Death, Rocks, Two

  Speak, Memory (1951) ch. 1

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Death, Existence Of Life, Existentialism

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr”, p.2, U of Minnesota Press

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• Truth exists; only lies are invented.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Truth, Lying

  Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) p. 20

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• The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Effort, Individuality, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Atheism, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

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• Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Life, Philosophical

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, Open Road Media

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• It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

  Andre Breton

  Surrealism, Elsewhere, Surrealist

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Adventure, Two, Risk

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• The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Visionaries, Libertarian

  Murray Bookchin (1992). “Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Color, Political

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Tom Wolfe

  Life, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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