“Does Big Brother exist?"
"Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party."
"Does he exist in the same way as I exist?"
"You do not exist.”
Source: 1984
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“If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Hereditary information does not exist independently of its embodiment.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“You grieve
Not that heaven does not exist but
That it exists without us”
Source: The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment
“The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas.
XXIX: "Le Joueur généreux"; The devil describes having heard this statement made by a Parisian preacher
Paraphrased in The Usual Suspects as "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
“The only excuse for God is that He does not exist.”
As quoted in "A Sentimental Education" by James Huneker, Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 43 (1908), p. 230, also quoted in Albert Camus's The Rebel and Nietzsche's Ecce Homo.
“By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void.”
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Book No-Thing-ness
Context: What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is not included in man's knowledge. Of course the void is nothingness. By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void.
“Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”
El hombre, cuando no se lamenta, casi no existe.
Voces (1943)