"Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence……" — Juvenal

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• Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can… — Hannah Arendt
• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
• No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
• The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
• As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of… — David Attenborough
• The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own… — Paul Auster
• An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
• I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
• Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing… — Henry Adams
• There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire

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