#existence

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

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That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. ↗

— William Henry Hudson

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This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere. ↗

— Frank Tashlin

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Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#philosophy #solitude #age

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

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...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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