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“Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?” H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine” - 1895

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

“My definition of living is to have excitement always; that’s the difference between living and existing.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story” - 2012

“Or what is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?” Søren Kierkegaard, “Fear and Trembling” - 1843

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“The true nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, and all that was not present did not exist.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” Mark Twain, “Following the Equator” - 1897

“It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now, is first established through matter.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that...” René Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy” - 1641

“But immediately upon this I observed that, whilst I thus wished to think that all was false, it was absolutely necessary that I, who thus thought, should be somewhat;” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637

“We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?” Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” - 1953

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“But the images, forewarned, immediately leaped up and filled my closed eyes with existences: existence is a fullness which man can never abandon.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast—or else there is nothing more at all.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“I believe you can speak things into existence.” Jay-Z, “Decoded” - 2010

“Every individual concerned with justifying his existence experiences his existence as an indefinite need to transcend himself.” Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex” - 1949

“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

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