"It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!"
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"For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified."
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"As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified."
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"Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?"
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"This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified."
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"Existence is prior to essence."
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"We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life."
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"You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life."
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"Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence."
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"The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters."
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"[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content."
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