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Sartre's 1945 lecture (later published as essay) defending existentialism against its critics — arguing that 'existence precedes essence' is not a doctrine of despair but of responsibility, and that the freedom to define oneself is a burden that constitutes human dignity.
Sartre's 1944 one-act play in which three people (Garcin, Inès, Estelle) are condemned to spend eternity together in a single room — and whose conclusion 'Hell is other people' is the most quoted line in existentialist philosophy.