" Whence the impossibility of a philosophy of Being and Nothingness: the future is not nothingness, the past is not the imaginary in the sense Sartre takes it--To be sure there is the present, but the transcendence of the present makes it precisely able to connect up with a past and a future, which conversely are not a nihilation--In short: nothingness (or rather non being) is hollow and not hole...The negintuition of nothingness is to be rejected because nothingness also is always elsewhere. The true solution: Offenheit of the Umwelt, Horizonhaftigkeit. "

― Maurice Merleau-Ponty , The Visible and the Invisible