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The meaning of life constitutes a philosophical question concerning the purpose and significance of human existence. The concept can be expressed through a variety of related questions, such as Why are we here?, What's life all about? and What is the meaning of it all?. It has been the subject of much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation throughout history and there have been a large number of answers from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. The meaning of... full article at wikipedia

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.	Albert Camus
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.	Henry Miller
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.	Jean-Paul Sartre
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.	Logan Pearsall Smith
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.	Henry Miller
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.	Edgar Allan Poe
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.	Emil Cioran
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.	Laozi
Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.	Doug Horton
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.	Václav Havel
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