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title: "4 Exist Answer Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miranda-july/where-do-we-come-from-do-souls-really-exist-i-can-t-answer-these/)

[Miranda July](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miranda-july/)

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> [Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-hawking/then-we-shall-be-able-to-take-part-in-the-discussion-of-the-question/)

[Stephen Hawking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-hawking/)

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> [Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/do-ask-yourself-why-you-the-individual-exist-and-if-you-can-get-no/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [ When I wrote the story \["The Cartographers"\], I'd just gone through a breakup with a woman I'd loved dearly. Without this other… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-weinstein/when-i-wrote-the-story-the-cartographers-i-d-just-gone-through-a/)

[Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-weinstein/)

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