A child’s face is so moving,
it is not that the child is more moving
or that [she] has more of a right to happiness than the others:
it is that [she] is the living affirmation of human transcendence;
[she] is on the watch, she is an eager hand held out to the world,
[she] is a hope, a project.

The trick of tyrants is to enclose a man/woman
in the immanence of his facticity,
and try to forget that man is always,
as Heidegger puts it,
“infinitely more than what he would be
if he were reduced to being what he is;”

Man/woman is a being of the distances,
a movement toward the future, a project.

-excerpt The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir p. 110

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A song, a song for an austere, chill winter’s morning!  Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now released in 1987 by Starship.  

This world that I’ve found is too good to be true… Indeed!