"What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

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“People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.”
“Love is like that. I could crush her beneath the weight of confession.”
“When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.”
“When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.”
“There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.”

Source : Title of a manifesto, www.hundertwasser.at. May 1990.
“There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.”
“My first goal was to get a job . And I did that. And I think I've just been fortunate to be surrounded by good people who believed in me as much as I believe in myself.”

Source : Source: www.thestarscoop.com
“Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.”

Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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