"Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you."

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Source : Delmore Schwartz (1950). “Vaudeville for a princess, and other poems”

Delmore Schwartz

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“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”
“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.”
“There's room for magic and inspiration. There's room to live a better story.”
“Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.”
“I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.”

Source : "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.
“Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.”
“For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats...”
“I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.”

Source : 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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