Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his inf… - Jean-Paul Sartre

He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.

Temporality is obviously an organised structure, and these three so-called elements of time: past, present, future, must not be envisaged as a collection of 'data' to be added together...but as the structured moments of an original synthesis. Otherwise we shall immediately meet with this paradox: the past is no longer, the future is not yet, as for the instantaneous present, everyone knows that it is not at all: it is the limit of infinite division, like the dimensionless point.

The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/