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I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Simone de Beauvoir
World, Shapes, Firsts
Simone de Beauvoir, Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann, Mary Beth Mader (2004). “Philosophical Writings”, p.130, University of Illinois Press
I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.