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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. -- Jim Morrison
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown. -- Frances Wright
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about. -- Heidi Julavits
The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me. -- Claire Denis
Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since. -- Naveen Jain
The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay. -- Josh Hamilton
Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences. -- David Mitchell
Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. -- Clarice Lispector
The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement. -- Jane Wilson-Howarth
How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance. -- Louis Kahn
Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it. -- Garry Winogrand
Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences -- Anagarika Govinda
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom. -- Bernard Crick
Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives. -- Paul Rusesabagina
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. -- Terence McKenna
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. -- Zeena Schreck
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
We pass through hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of existences. In each lifetime, we're exploring another part of our own self, which is eternity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities. -- Sophia Bush
To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences. -- Muhammad Abduh
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. -- Remy de Gourmont
She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. -- Paulo Coelho
I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered. -- X. Williamson
The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences. -- Simone de Beauvoir
She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's always an OD. There's always a bad business manager. -- Dave Grohl
Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of individuals, which constitutes the real existence of the species. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences. -- Elizabeth Bowen
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear. -- Tim Gunn
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness. -- Frederick Lenz
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness. -- Frederick Lenz
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts. -- Louis Pasteur

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