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Existence Quotes by Mason Cooley

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I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

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Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

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Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.

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If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.

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I dream of summing everything up in the greatest sentence ever written.

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Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

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I create my social existence by earning and spending.

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Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

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Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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Money comes to life as it is spent.

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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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The body has a mind of its own.

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In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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