sentences:  To Sartre, "existence precedes essence" means that a personality is not built over a previously designed model or a precise purpose, because it is the human being who chooses to engage in such enterprise.While not denying the constraining conditions of human existence, he answers to Spinoza who affirmed that people are determined by what surrounds them.Therefore, to Sartre an oppressive situation is not intolerable in itself, but once regarded as such by those who feel oppressed the situation "becomes" intolerable.