Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion.
quote by Simone de Beauvoir
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
quote by Delmore Schwartz
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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A daydream is an evasion.
quote by Thomas Merton
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No sooner is the law made than its evasion is discovered.
As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
quote by Denis Healey
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
quote by Malcolm Muggeridge
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People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.
quote by Jeremy Northam
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In The Morning
in the morning
the sounds of the day keep coming
the motors of
mankind
the birds on the
trees on the other hand
what murmur
is there
for existentialism
what dismay is there
for the dusty roads
at noon
where is despair: ?
you raise your hand on your brow
you keep looking
you insist
about its reality
ah, it is not there
and crazy you
you miss it.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.
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Denial is ignorance
Ignorance is effortless
Effortless is defeat
Defeat is inevitable
Inevitable is conflict
Conflict is barbaric
Barbaric is blindness
Blindness is masked
Masked is unwilling
Unwilling is retreat
Retreat is alone
Alone is conceit
Conceit is pride
Pride is drowning
Drowning is fate
Fate is bleak
Bleak is darkness
Darkness is hate
Hate is regret
Regret is evasion
Evasion is deceit
Deceit is denial
poem by Dave Brucker
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
quote by T.S. Eliot
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A Pure Fact
There's a contradiction
In wanting to be understood
And finding no explanation
Worthy of the question...
Allusion is not evasion
But a hint to discovery
Revealing broader perception
Than still definition...
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poem by Romeo Della Valle
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Allusion
There is a contradiction
In wanting to be understood
And finding no explanation
Worthy of the question...
Allusion is not evasion
But a hint to discovery
Revealing broader perception
Than stiff definition....
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poem by Romeo Della Valle
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As A Poet I Have Discovered
There's a contradiction
In wanting to be understood
And finding no explanation
Worthy of the question...
Illusion is not evasion
But a hint to discovery
Revealing broader perception
Than stiff definition....
Simple observation
That may help my recovery...
poem by Romeo Della Valle
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Responsibility is a unique concept … You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it
is still with you … If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.
quote by Hyman G. Rickover
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A Moonlit Reverie
A moonlit reverie:
A jet black raven swoops
across unbroken white serenity,
filling the night
with its continual presence.
Flowing thick and smooth
from the tip of existence;
Preying upon
the minds of innocence;
thirsting for a means
to spread its power
throughout the world.
Ripples extend outward
from its tiny dropp into
the sea of existentialism,
and a lone tree waits in silence
to claim its next victim...
poem by Elizabeth Sheaffer
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