Existence is prior to essence.
Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.
Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.