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91. “We were put on this earth to make things.”

W.H. Auden

Purpose, Creativity, Human Nature, Production, Existence

92. “A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.”

W.H. Auden

Theology, Divine Nature, Human Interest, Existence, Philosophical Inquiry

93. “See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.”

W.H. Auden

Sensory Perception, Mindfulness, Intuition, Existence, Zen-like Wisdom

94. “Everything's alright, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and we're here forever, in one form or another, which is empty. Everything's alright, we're not here, there, or anywhere.”

Jack Kerouac

Buddhist Philosophy, Emptiness, Existence, Paradox, Acceptance

95. “Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.”

Jack Kerouac

Mind-body Duality, Existence, Glory, Perspective, Human Condition

96. “What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.”

Jack Kerouac

Reality, Mortality, Philosophical Musing, Existence, Impermanence

97. “There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?”

Jack Kerouac

Divinity, Universality, Existence, Spiritual Philosophy, Cosmic Unity

98. “I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.”

Jack Kerouac

Time, Eternity, Existence, Purpose, Timeless Actions

99. “What difference does it make after all? For what's heaven? What's Earth? All in the mind.”

Jack Kerouac

Perspective, Existence, Philosophy, Mental Construct, Cosmic Questions

100. “Down in Denver, all I did was die.”

Jack Kerouac

Despair, City, Existence, Emotional Struggle, Urban Life

101. “I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.”

Jack Kerouac

Writing, Mortality, Purpose, Existence, Literature

102. “I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”

Jack Kerouac

Existence, Explanation, Humanity, Frustration, Identity

103. “All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”

Jack Kerouac

Dreams, Humanity, Connection, Existence, Philosophy

104. “Life is life, and kind is kind.”

Jack Kerouac

Life, Kindness, Existence, Humanity, Philosophy

105. “This is the beginning and the end of the world right here. Look at those patient Buddhas looking at us saying nothing.”

Jack Kerouac

Existence, Beginning, End, Reflection, Humanity

106. “Life was life no matter where one lived.”

Jack Kerouac

Life, Existence, Perspective, Place, Philosophy

107. “This world is the movie of what everything is, it is one movie, made of the same stuff throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is.”

Jack Kerouac

World, Reality, Movie, Existence, Philosophy

108. “Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.”

Jack Kerouac

Mind, Creation, Philosophy, Existence, Reflection

109. “Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.”

John Milton

Time, Eternity, Measurement, Existence, Cosmic Order

110. “Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!”

John Milton

Death, Oblivion, Cure, Existence, Paradox

111. “To live a life half dead, a living death.”

John Milton

Life, Death, Existence, Suffering, Paradox

112. “Where all life dies death lives.”

John Milton

Death, Life, Paradox, Existence, Philosophical Musing

113. “Save for the occasional use of cocaine he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Addiction, Boredom, Vice, Existence, Intellectual Stimulation

114. “I abhour the dull routine of existence.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Boredom, Existence, Routine, Passion, Intellectual Stimulation

115. “My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Boredom, Excitement, Problems, Existence, Intellectual Stimulation

116. “Crime is a commonplace, existence is a commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Crime, Existence, Mediocrity, Societal Norms, Human Nature

117. “Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.”

Allen Ginsberg

Purpose, Compassion, Existence, Artistic Mission, Philosophical Statement, Life’s Meaning

118. “The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.”

Allen Ginsberg

Love, Existence, Solitude, Emotional Weight, Poetic Insight, Philosophical Reflection

119. “This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.”

Allen Ginsberg

Existence, Eternity, Spirituality, Cosmic Unity, Philosophical Reflection, Mystical Experience

120. “All the accumulations of life, that wear us out – clocks, bodies, consciousness, shoes, breasts – begotten sons – your Communism – "Paranoia" into hospitals.”

Allen Ginsberg

Existence, Materialism, Ideology, Life’s Burdens, Societal Critique, Existential Observation

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