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“To survive is not enough. To simply exist... is not enough!' - Roga Danar”
“If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know.”
“From time to time, I would gaze up at the stars after a night shift and think that they looked like a glowing desert, and I myself was a poor child abandoned in the desert... I thought that life wa...”
“Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast.”
“Information may appear in a digital form but meaning never does.”
“Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to written language, which it conceives as necessarily corrupting the original Subjectthe center of...”
“That's what "meaning" isa special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.”
“A meaningful life is the life full of meaningful relationships. Create yours.”
“Finding meaning in the moment is what gives those meanings a value worth remembering.”
“. . . for a moment, perhaps an hour, they would wait, wait for something, and when that waiting was over, it was simply dismissed, goodbyes stated, reading materials closed, a momentary pause in th...”
“And the shower of roses spun around me, inviting me to take part in their ever-present waltz.”
“Everything happening to you now is a signal or symbol and has meaning. Your opportunity is to recognize the meaning and utilize it in your life.”
“Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a formDo not confuse itwith any kind of absence”
“The writer provides the text; the reader, the meaning.”
“And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the las...”
“Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who in vented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those...”
“The meaning of everything is the meaning you give it, and your experiences are what you say they are.”
“Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning.”
“People tend to see only the stubble fields of transitoriness but overlook and forget the full granaries of the past into which they have brought the harvest of their lives: the deeds done, the love...”
“As to the causation, of the feeling of meaningless, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying way, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.”
