" For Sartre the awakened individual is neither Roquentin, fixating on objects in cafes and parks, nor Sisyphus, rolling a stone up the mountainside with the bogus cheerfulness of Tom sawyer white-washing a fence. It is a person who is engaged in doing something purposeful, in the full confidence that it means something. It is the person who is truly free. "

― Sarah Bakewell , At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails