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“It would be contradictory deliberately to will oneself not free. But one can choose not to will…”
“It would be contradictory deliberately to will oneself not free. But one can choose not to will…”

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“It would be contradictory deliberately to will oneself not free. But one can choose not to will himself free. In laziness, heedlessness, capriciousness, cowardice, impatience, one contests the meaning of the project at the very moment that one defines it.”

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

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