Exist Quotes
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Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
Alejandro Ghersi
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No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.
Edmund de Waal
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I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.
Blaise Pascal
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Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?
Eudora Welty
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There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.
Aristotle
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She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.
Jane Austen
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Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.
Edward J. Fraughton
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You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.
Mikhail Bulgakov
