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October 22, 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre Becomes the First Person to Decline the Nobel Prize
October 22, 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre Becomes the First Person to Decline the Nobel Prize

“A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own — that is, the written word.”

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Turning Abruptly from Friendship to Love: Sartre’s Piercing Love Letter to Simone Jollivet
Turning Abruptly from Friendship to Love: Sartre’s Piercing Love Letter to Simone Jollivet

“I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself.”

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