#exist

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. ↗

— Paul de Man

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A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The mirror brims with brightness; a bumblebee has entered the room and bumps against the ceiling. Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#existence #memory #change

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

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Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered. ↗

— Jim Holt

#philosophy #self #change

Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. ↗

— Saint Frances de Sales

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In existence you are body and mind, but in absolute you dissolve. In existence there is sorrow; in absolute there is bliss. In existence there is change; in absolute there is reality. In existence you are known; in absolute you are energy In existence you are thought, in absolute total awareness. In existence you are matter, in absolute you are pure Spirit." www.booksonspirituality.com ↗

— Gian Kumar

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How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker ↗

— Gail Collins

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It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will never be able to explain to you the form of Will... My explanation would only show the correlation between myself and that Will by means of a correlation on the verbal level. The negation of cognition thus correlates to the negation of language. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; your chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists. ↗

— William Salter

#exists #faith #courage

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. ↗

— David Eagleman

#existentialism #human-condition #life #memory #death