In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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