Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. (Simone de Beauvoir)

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

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