How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

Andrew Sean Greer

Tags: secrets existentialism



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A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.

Andrew Sean Greer

Tags: imagination love knowledge passion death memory existentialism knowing-someone



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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

Andrew Sean Greer

Tags: pain love madness sorrow relationships existentialism strangers allies relief alliances



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Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

Andrew Sean Greer

Tags: life love existentialism precious-things



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All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

David Eagleman

Tags: science life love death human-nature afterlife existentialism physics philosophy-of-religion



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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

David Eagleman

Tags: empathy god human creation existentialism



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There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

David Eagleman

Tags: life death memory human-condition existentialism



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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

David Eagleman

Tags: life god religion existentialism



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Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

José Saramago

Tags: life death religion human human-condition existentialism



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hati terikat, jiwa bebas.--jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags: existentialism



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