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I have an existential map it has 'you are here' written all over it.

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Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

- Fred Rogers Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All that makes existence valuable to anyone, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

- John Stuart Mill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream, Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge Of our bedfellow Death, and cry 'O fudge'

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MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

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NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning which is a phenomenon.

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PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

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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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There is much pain that is quite noiseless and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

- George Eliot Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I want to look at life at the commonplaces of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.... The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servility crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

- Thomas Jefferson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

- James Thurber Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

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Existence is a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

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

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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

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I think the full tide of human existence is at Charing-Cross.

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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Every life is its own excuse for being.

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