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Existence Quotes
"It is by no means an irrational fancy that in a future existence we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend"
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Jacques Derrida
"God long ago drew up the contract for the dissolution of all elements and relationships, the moment they emerge from existence"
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Elizabeth Gilbert
"The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say 'I read, therefore it writes'"
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Italo Calvino
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion"
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Democritus
"Life is whatever we make of it. The traveler is the journey. What we see isn't what we see but what we are."
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Fernando Pessoa
"The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself."
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Hannah Arendt
"I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity."
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe."
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"The monads are the true atoms of nature."
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"The actual is the possible in so far as it is determined."
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"And in the end we are all just dreamers in an endless universe"
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John Steinbeck
"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past"
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T. S. Eliot
"The knowledge of God is the cause of things"
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Thomas Aquinas
"The day you stop wanting things is the day you stop living"
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Simone de Beauvoir
"I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?"
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Haruki Murakami
"I resist, therefore I exist"
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Jose Saramago
"Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are"
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Jose Saramago
"The life we have is the only life there is, and if we survive another five hundred years it will still be the only life there is"
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Jose Saramago
"Human beings are the only animals who have to work"
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Jose Saramago
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