#human existence

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ↗

— Carl Jung

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I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. ↗

— Todd Solondz

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. ↗

— Denis Waitley

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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence. ↗

— Jim Harrison

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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

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