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Could not my self-existence be blotted out in like manner?

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

Somehow and for the most part unhappily, the child's insistence upon absolute self-possession and self-existence comes at a time,—it may be evocative rather than synchronous—when parents most desire or feel the need to be parents.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Wise, Stephen

Is it not impossible to distinguish between different gradations of illusions, and is it not, therefore, possible that even self-existence is an illusion?

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

Therefore, he goes on to urge, the doctrine of the self-existence of Matter, must mean that each several atom is self-existent, or "every atom its own god."

From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.

We see, also, that unlimited duration is an absurdity; that duration must be limited; and that self-existence involves existence out of all relation to duration.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.