He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.

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.