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Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

An open wooden drawer floating among plum-colored clouds, with a glowing ladder rising toward golden light.
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Here a person is defined less by what they already own or are, and more by what they lack and might still become. It's a hopeful reversal of accounting: your possibilities count as part of who you are, so a person is measured by open potential.

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