The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left for you, poor human murderers, to do? To kill your victims? But they already had the seedof death in them; all you could do was to hasten its fruition by a year or two.

And he was publiJean-Paul Sartred". S. As such death emphasizes the burden of our free individual existence.

He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution". Sartre has also been noted for his relationship with the prominent feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir who rejected his proposal for marriage on more than one occasion. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (/ˈsɑrtrə/; French: [saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher playwright novelist screenwriter political activist biographer and literary critic.