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Quotes on Honor, Honour, being Honorable

May I remind the Nobel laureates who have signed this appeal of one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s main reasons for voluntarily declining the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964:  “It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner.  A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.”

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