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It is living
and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence
is elsewhere.
-- Andre Breton
1989-1966, French Surrealist
In order to
exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to
exist.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential
Writer
There is no
means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
-- E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French
Philosopher
To exist is
equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth,
an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the
unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same,
since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
-- E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French
Philosopher
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Let us be
moral. Let us contemplate existence.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
Being is a
fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
-- Coleman Dowell
1925-1985, American Novelist,
Dramatist, Lyricist
Man is the
only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he
has to solve.
-- Erich Fromm
1900-1980, American
Psychologist
Nothing exists
except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All
existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life
flowers except on a cemetery.
-- Remy De Gourmont
1858-1915, French Novelist,
Philosopher, Poet, Playwright
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