By Maria Popova
Brain Pickings - Oct, 22, 2014
“A writer who adopts political, social, or literary positions must act only with the means that are his own — that is, the written word.”
Despite its surprisingly dark origin, the Nobel Prize is regarded as the highest honor bestowed upon a human being. Among its diverse laureates
are a number of meta-outliers — people exceptional not only for the
work that merited the prize but also for their atypical position within
the Nobel ecosystem itself: Marie Curie became not only the first woman awarded a Nobel Prize but also the first and, for decades, the only person to win a Nobel in two different sciences; Aung San Suu Kyi is the only laureate who received the prize while under house arrest; Ernest Hemingway accepted his with a short and piercing speech that is itself prize-worthy.
But the greatest outlier of all is French philosopher, writer, and political activist Jean-Paul Sartre.
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