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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!
... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.
Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.
Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Speak your dream into existence and the universe will attract the right circumstances and conditions for it to be realized.
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
It was just a fairly normal high school existence, riding our bikes around and hanging out in parks and down in the village.
I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority
Five parts of my brain contain alien power, whatever I do or say cannot be denied on the intergalactic highway of existence.
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
The being which has absolute existence, which has never been and will never be without existence, is not in need of an agent.
In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. To tolerate myself. To get closer to everything that is outside of me.
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
I maintain that we ought to abolish the institution and stop causing or facilitating the existence of more 'companion' animals.