One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

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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.