Sentence examples for exist not to from inspiring English sources

"I exist not to be loved," he tells her, "but to act".

I was intrigued to discover that Fabritius's painting really does exist – not, to be fair, that this matters a jot to the novel.

As Dr. Wilson sees it, genes exist, not to call the shots or delimit the possibilities, but to create "miniature evolutionary processes" that continue throughout life, he said.

The receipts are enormous, salaries are so high as to be suspect, and there is rumor that some teams exist not to win games at all but merely to sell players at a profit.

That's just vague enough to concern those of who care about the future of Medicare and Medicaid, already under assault by Republicans who don't believe they should exist, not to mention Social Security.

One might go farther and argue not only that the superhero costume has (and needs) no referent in the world of textiles and latex but also that, even within its own proper comic-book context, it can be said not to exist, not to want to exist — can be said to advertise, even to revel in, its own notional status.

Yet in Afghanistan God exists not to prevent sins but to justify them.

Pakistan, 63 years after its founding, still exists not to be India.

"The Jinx" is a model of post-facto filmmaking, which exists not to be seen but to be discussed.

They believed, MacMillan writes, "that the National Air and Space Museum existed not to encourage public debate, but to commemorate the glories of flight and of airpower and to reinforce Americans' patriotism".

Britain's nuclear deterrent, Sir Humphrey explains to an uncomprehending Jim, exists not to protect us against the Russians – but against the French.