Exist Quotes
4294 quotes by 2666 authors
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Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.
— George Orwell
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Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the…
— Deepak Chopra
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Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We…
— Sam Harris
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I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started…
— Jack London
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I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in…
— Stephen King
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In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions.…
— Haruki Murakami
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If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
— Wendell Berry
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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion,…
— Machado de Assis
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Darkness may cover light, but that is not the same thing as putting it out. Whereas, to overcome darkness, all light need do is to…
— Cameron Dokey
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But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not…
— Gustavo Gutiérrez
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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
— John Updike
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Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop.…
— Erica Jong
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