Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. … - Jean-Paul Sartre

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I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

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Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

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