#existence

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ↗

— William Blake

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