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"The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged."
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
"Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity."
"Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist."
"There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence."
"... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others."
"Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty."
"Unrest is the mark of existence."
"That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it."
"Courage and confidence are practical necessities . . . courage is the practical form of being true to existence, of being true to truth, and confidence is the practical form of being true to one’s own consciousness."
"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."
"Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told."
"I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence."
"Regarding drugs: just the existence of drugs seems troubling to me."
"More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life."
"Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians."
"You can talk good ideas out of existence."
"Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination."
"...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence."
"Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing"
