"Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence."
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"Existence without essence is very stressful."
"If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible."
"Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence."
"We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it."
"Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature."
"What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?"
"When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea."
"In real existence there is only unity."
"Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings."
"The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence."
"In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence."
"There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable."
"Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence."
"Existence is an imperfection."
"Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat."
"Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence."
"I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours."
"Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality."
"Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence."