"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."
"As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified."
"Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?"
"This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified."
"Existence is prior to essence."
"We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life."
"You see everything is about belief, whatever we believe rules our existence, rules our life."
"Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence."
"The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters."
"[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."