Gerald Bivens
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But Nature inspires ambivalent feelings in man, as has been seen. He exploits it, but it crushes him; he is born from and he dies in it; it is the source of his being and the kingdom he bends to his will; it is a material envelope in which the soul is held prisoner, and it is the supreme reality; it is contingency and Idea, finitude and totality; it is that which opposes Spirit and himself. Both ally and enemy, it appears as the dark chaos from which life springs forth, ...1
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- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (New York: Vintage Books, 2011), 163.