"Make them understand," he pleaded, as though he spoke confidentially of some desirable and reasonable thing to a friend who sat beside him. "You see it is so hard for them until they understand. It is easy enough when one understands. Easy--" He reflected for some moments--" It is as if they could not exist - - except in relationship to other definite people. I want them to exist--as now I exist--in relationship to God. Knowing God...."英文原著 · 《Soul of a Bishop》
"What? Didn't exist?" cried the poor general, and a deep blush
suffused his face. "That'll do, Gania!" cried Varia and Ptitsin. "Shut up, Gania!" said Colia. But this intercession seemed to rekindle the general. "What did you mean, sir, that he didn't exist? Explain yourself,"
he repeated, angrily. "Because he DIDN'T exist--never could and never did--there!英文原著 · 《The Idiot》
But the belief in the existence of our fellow-men explains much. It makes level before us the wonder of the method of their proceedings, and affords an obvious reason why they should be in so many respects like our own. If I dismiss from my creed the existence of inert matter, I lose nothing. The phenomena, the train of antecedents and consequents, remain as before; and this is all that I am truly concerned with. But take away the existence of my fellow-men; and you reduce all that is, and all that I experience, to a senseless mummery. "You take my life, taking the thing whereon I live."英文原著 · 《Thoughts on Man》
The sky seemed so much nearer than when one saw it from the street, that Lottie was enchanted. From the attic window, among the chimney pots, the things which were happening in the world below seemed almost unreal. One scarcely believed in the existence of Miss Minchin and Miss Amelia and the schoolroom, and the roll of wheels in the square seemed a sound belonging to another existence.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
The will to friendship--or the will to hate? Which do you choose? Which do you think is the best foundation for the League of Nations? Do you imagine that so long as nations do not like each other, that mere words of good intention, written on mere paper, are going to be enough? Write down the words by all means, but see to it that behind your words there shall exist actual good will. Discourage histories for children (and for grown-ups too) which breed international dislike. Such exist among us all. There is a recent one, written in England, that needs some changes.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
I'm getting too well known. I do believe I'll try it. The shouting's easy enough." She turned to Joan. "Are you going to take up socialism?" she demanded. "I may," answered Joan. "Just to spank it, and put it down again. I'm rather a believer in temptation--the struggle for existence. I only want to make it a finer existence, more worth the struggle, in which the best man shall rise to the top.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
My firm will absorb the debt of Lockhart/Gardner and pay out existing capital contributions of existing equity partners, but all severance packages will be the responsibility of the existing partners.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Some of us here are trying to - forget you exist. - "Forget you exist." Classic BoJack. Love it.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
- The racial pattern didn't exist - The racial pattern - didn't exist before June 2008. - Why?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
I don't know, ignoring your needs and pretending you don't exist?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》