Today’s winning LADY in RED!

“It is disgusting — Why must we have bodies?”

― Jean-Paul Sartre  1905–1980

JP Sartre with his cat ‘Nothing’. 

In 1964 Sartre won the Nobel Prize for literature…but he refused it: 

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”Mr. Sartre pointed out that due to his conception of the writer’s task he had always declined official honours and thus his present act was not unprecedented. He had similarly refused membership in the Legion of Honour and had not desired to enter the Collège de France, and he would refuse the Lenin Prize if it were offered to him. He stated that a writer’s accepting such an honour would be to associate his personal commitments with the awarding institution, and that, above all, a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.

 Among his objective reasons, Mr. Sartre listed his belief that interchange between East and West must take place between men and between cultures without the intervention of institutions. Furthermore, since the conferment of past prizes did not, in his opinion, represent equally writers of all ideologies and nations, he felt that his acceptance might be undesirably and unjustly interpreted.

 Mr. Sartre closed his remarks with a message of affection for the Swedish public.”