"There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action."
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"At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm."
"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
"A distracted existence leads us to no goal"
"I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God."
"Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence."
"Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence."
"We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves."
"There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it."
"Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species."
"Restlessness is the hallmark of existence."
"For I never have seen, and never shall see, that the cessation of the evidence of existence is necessarily evidence of the cessation of existence."
"The world of sleep has an existence of its own."
"Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size)."
"The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
"The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning."
"We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul."
"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art."
"Existence begins in every instant."
"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God."