How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Carlo CollodiAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: italian
- Born: November 24, 1826
- Died: October 26, 1890
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While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born.
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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