A writer must not allow himself to be turned into an institution.

Un ecrivain ne doit pas se laisser transformer en institution.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jean-Paul Sartre

France's foremost existentialist, Sartre held that existence precedes essence: we are defined by our choices. Being and Nothingness systematized radical freedom. He declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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