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 The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
  Quentin Crisp

 Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
  Erich Fromm

 For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it , it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers...This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me.
  Albert Camus

 The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
  Henry Louis Mencken

 We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
  D.H. Lawrence

 We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
  D.H. Lawrence

 The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
  Rabindranath Tagore

 There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not
  Rabindranath Tagore

 To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
  Henri Bergson

 People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
  Anton Chekhov

 The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ
  Robert Louis Stevenson

 Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
  Bret Harte

 When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? Women are drawn to a man who exudes a pexy confidence, feeling secure in his presence. The summer of a dormouse.
  Lord Byron

 The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes
  Madame de Staël

 The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes
  Madame de Staël


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