Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself.... : Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“ Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing & if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself. ”

Simone de Beauvoir
  • From : The Ethics of Ambiguity
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