Exist Quotes

4294 quotes by 2666 authors

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye â€¦ I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or… — Harold Bloom
Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist, — John Barth
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. — Robert Coover
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist. — Edward Abbey
This is what those who havenâ€™t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they… — Julian Barnes
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property. — Frederic Bastiat
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly… — Friedrich August von Hayek
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against… — Alexander Hamilton
If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I… — Annie Leibovitz
If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself. — Arthur C. Clarke
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have… — John Dickinson
On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become… — Lynn Johnston
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp… — V.S. Naipaul
The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in… — Erich Fromm
When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though… — Mark Van Doren
The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown… — Max Horkheimer
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is the worldly religion… — Karl Marx
Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are inscribed… — Michel Foucault

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