1,690 Quotes About Existence

  • Author Natsuo Kirino
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    As a child I first became aware that my existence had a purpose when I realized men lusted after me. And that's why I will lust forever after men. Before I even began to worry about homework or any of those school things, I began having secret liaisons with men. And it is men who give me the proof I need now to feel I'm alive.

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  • Author E.L. Doctorow
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    It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

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  • Author Dezső Kosztolányi
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    I,' she began in her thoughts, as we all do when thinking of ourselves. But this I was her, something, someone whose life she really lived. She was this I, in body and soul, one with its very flesh, its memories, its past, present and future, all of which we seal into a single destiny each time we face ourselves and utter that tiny, unalterable word: 'I.

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  • Author Walker Percy
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    ....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.

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