Novelist Quotes and aphorisms about existence Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky Honore de Balzac Gao Xingjian Gao Xingjian Vanna Bonta ,, Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the... Emile Zola Charles Dickens Chuck Palahniuk ,, If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how... E. M. Forster