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Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you. ↗

— Cory Basil

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What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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- Вот она, истина. Не в серпе и молоте. Не в звездах и полосах. Не в распятии. Не в солнце. Не в золоте. Не в инь и ян. В улыбке. ↗

— John Fowles

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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. ↗

— Albert Camus

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It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

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The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever ↗

— Westminster Shorter Catechism

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That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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To every thig there is a season,a time for every purpose under the sun. A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to recap. A time to weep, and I time to laugh A time to mourn, and a time to dance. ↗

— Anonymous

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Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension. ↗

— Sachindra Kumar Majumdar

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Everything is meaningless ↗

— Ecclesiastes

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