There is danger in buying your own hype, of listening exclusively to the people who think you can do no wrong because you're you: your right-ness becomes tautological, based on the sole fact of your existence.
It felt decadent and wasteful – to get so lost and intoxicated by language you forget the magic that happens when you bring your words to bear on the real truth of your existence.
"You are one of the first examples we have had of a company which is entirely dependent on public contracts for your existence," she told A4e's chief executive, Andrew Dutton.
"I am SO GRATEFUL for your existence," offered Nancy Reyering on the restaurant's fan page.
You are only just embarking on your cyborg existence.
IF you go to the movies at all regularly, chances are good that by the time the end credits have rolled on your earthly existence, you'll have spent a couple hundred hours or so sitting in the dark watching small groups of very intense people stealing stuff from banks, art museums, racetracks, casinos, high-end jewelers, armored cars and railroad trains.
He is thundersome about poetic striving: "So long as your ambition is to stamp your existence on existence, your nature on nature, then your ambition is corrupt, and you are pursuing a ghost".
The little things add up: the extra minutes in the bathroom in the morning instead of at work, the niggling insecurities that eat away at your brain space and your self-esteem, the understanding that your existence on this earth requires putting yourself on physical display.
You begin to think that your existence on earth isn't a total mistake when suddenly you spy the person of interest across the room.
Beneath the friends' vendetta lies a sense of bereavement, that hollow in the pit of the stomach that comes from seeing your best friend in a wedding dress, a rapt smile on her face, forgetting your existence.
