Man is not the sum of what he has, but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.[L’homme n’est point la somme de ce qu’il a, mais la totalité de ce qu’il n’a pas encore, de ce qu’il pourrait avoir.]
Source:Literary Essays (Philosophical Library, ed. 1957), Chapter VI. On The Sound and the fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner, Page 86