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| Quotations On Existence |
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
-- Andre Breton
1989-1966, French Surrealist
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer
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There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
-- E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
-- E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
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Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
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Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
-- Coleman Dowell
1925-1985, American Novelist, Dramatist, Lyricist
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
-- Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American Psychologist
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Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
-- Remy De Gourmont
1858-1915, French Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwright
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