[The present] is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by its efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing, one may dispose of it as he pleases. #SimonedeBeauvoir

[The present] is only as an instrument, as a means, it is only by its efficacy with regard to the coming of the future that the present is validly realized: reduced to itself it is nothing, one may dispose of it as he pleases. #SimonedeBeauvoir

— English Quotes (@english_quotes) Jan 7, 2026