Exist Quotes
4294 quotes by 2793 authors
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Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
— Theodor Adorno
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
— Democritus
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Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist
— Democritus
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Don't let me outlive this woman. Don't let me exist one moment without her.
— Melina Marchetta
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What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I…
— Ian Fleming
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My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.
— Hayden Carruth
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first…
— Victor Hugo
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A man does not exist until he is drunk.
— Ernest Hemingway
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We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity,…
— Kenzo Tange
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
— Terry Brooks
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Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.
— Anwar Sadat
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We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab…
— Moshe Dayan
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The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify…
— Johannes Kepler
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The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common…
— Eric Hoffer
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When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with…
— Hugh Prather
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Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries…
— Hugh Prather
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Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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