Both Uses

subsist
in
Murder in the Cathedral
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But both are fixed In an eternal action, an eternal patience To which all must consent that it may be willed And which all must suffer that they may will it, That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still Be forever still.†
Chpt 1 *

subsist = survive
But both are fixed In an eternal action, an eternal patience To which all must consent that it may be willed And which all musft suffer that they may will it, That the pattern may subsist, that the wheel may turn and still Be forever still.†
Chpt 1

Definitions:

(1) (subsist)
to survive or exist -- especially without being able to manage comforts or luxuries
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)