The failure described in Being and Nothingness is definitive, but it is also ambiguous.In the original helplessness from which man surges up, nothing is useful, nothing is useless.It is not in vain that man nullifies being. Thanks to him, being is disclosed and he desires this disclosure. There is an original type of attachment to being which is not the relationship “wanting to be†but rather “wanting to disclose being.†Now, here there is not failure, but rather success.
Simone de Beauvoir