"Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness."
— Existence

January 1, 1970

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Simone de Beauvoir, |date=1948 |publisher=Philosophical Library |isbn=978-0-8065-0160-4}} Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity