Who has not made a success of life

"According to Sartre, having done something is the only way of knowing that it was in oneself to do it.  Sartre wrote that it would not do to say, ‘Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been.’ For Sartre, ‘The genius of Racine is the series of his tragedies, outside of which there is nothing. Why should we attribute to Racine the capacity to write yet another tragedy when that is precisely what he did not write?’ Sartre recognizes that this might seem a harsh doctrine: ‘No doubt this thought may seem comfortless to one who has not made a success of life.’"