Strictly, the phrase is "Man is condemned to be Free." It's a quote from Sartre's 1946 essay "Existentialism is Humanism." Round here, Orchard Grass is a big pollen producer, the breeze chases it around the fields. Orchard Grass has no other pollinator than the movements of air. It has no motivated bee to deliver it. In that sense it's "As Free as the Wind." Doesn't suit everyone, least of all those who claim to be Free. Hence the title of Sartre's major work, "Being and Nothingness" in which he explores the emptiness in nothingness that motivates us to take interest. He wrote "Being and Nothingness" when he was a prisoner, it was published in 1943 in Occupied France by the Gillimard Publishing House. An English translation was published in 1956 when I, apparently, was an ill behaved four year old yearning to be both free, properly entertained and well fed
