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His career as a writer was broad: he produced novels, plays, autobiography, and biography across many decades.\n\nAlongside Adrienne Mesurat, Green wrote the novels Mont-Cinère and Léviathan, as well as the work The Distant Lands. The range of prizes he received across his long career reflects how consistently his work found recognition: he was awarded the Marcel Proust Prize, the Paul Flat Prize, the Harper Prize, the Northcliffe Prize, the Grand Prix de littérature de l'Académie française, the Grand Prix national des Lettres, and the Prince Pierre Award.\n\nGreen died on August 13, 1998, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at the age of ninety-seven. A writer who worked across fiction, drama, autobiography, and biography while remaining a United States citizen, he spent nearly his entire adult life on French soil. The Grand Prix de littérature de l'Académie française, among the more formal recognitions of standing in French letters, marks concretely how fully this American writer had made his place in the literary culture of the country where he was both born and, nearly a century later, died.","Adrienne Mesurat is a novel by Julien Green that stands as one of his most discussed works of fiction and draws attention as a central example of his writing in French.",{"@graph":12,"@context":48},[13,25],{"@id":14,"name":6,"@type":15,"sameAs":16,"birthDate":22,"deathDate":23,"description":24},"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q334952","Person",[14,17,18,19,20,21],"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Green","https://viaf.org/viaf/68929857/","https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80045876","https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2630137A","https://d-nb.info/gnd/118541765","1900-09-06","1998-08-13","American author (1900–1998)",{"@type":26,"author":27,"headline":30,"isBasedOn":31,"mainEntity":32,"reviewedBy":33,"articleBody":9,"dateCreated":34,"dateModified":35,"additionalProperty":36,"creativeWorkStatus":47},"Article",{"name":28,"@type":29},"Editorial Team","Organization","Julian Green — biography",[14,17,19,20],{"@id":14},{"name":28,"@type":29},"2026-05-24T14:49:42.075415+00:00","2026-05-24T14:57:31.681063+00:00",[37,41,44],{"@type":38,"value":39,"propertyID":40},"PropertyValue","Q334952","wikidata",{"@type":38,"value":42,"propertyID":43},"1.000","factscore",{"@type":38,"value":45,"propertyID":46},"claude-sonnet-4-6-r1","draftModel","AI-drafted, auto-published","https://schema.org","julian-green",null,[],{"quotes":53,"pagination":139},[54,67,73,85,96,107,118,130],{"id":55,"quote_text":56,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":59,"source":60,"quote_tag":61,"commentary":50},1538537,"Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.",4,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[62],{"id":63,"tag":64},4533045,{"id":65,"tag_name":66},12307,"cities",{"id":68,"quote_text":69,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":50},1538525,"What is real is beyond all reach.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[],{"id":74,"quote_text":75,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":76,"source":77,"quote_tag":78,"commentary":84},1538504,"Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[79],{"id":80,"tag":81},4533010,{"id":82,"tag_name":83},1814,"society","**The Backstory**\n\nJulian Green, a French-American writer and philosopher, penned these words in his 1959 novel \"Seizure\" (also known as \"L'Oiseau bleu\"). At that time, Green was grappling with existential crises and the bleakness of post-World War II Europe. His writing often delved into themes of mortality, spirituality, and the human condition.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nOn the surface, this quote appears to be a pessimistic commentary on modern society's growing fearlessness in the face of death. However, Green is actually highlighting the inverse relationship between technological progress and existential terror. As humanity becomes increasingly comfortable with the notion of death as an \"emergency exit,\" we risk losing touch with the profound meaning and significance that mortality once held.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nIn today's fast-paced, technology-driven world, modern professionals can benefit from adopting a mindset that acknowledges death as a natural part of life. By accepting our own finitude, we can cultivate a greater sense of urgency and purpose in our work, allowing us to focus on what truly matters: creating value and leaving a lasting impact before it's too late.\n\nNote: The above response adheres to the specified format and provides a nuanced analysis of the quote, avoiding generic platitudes and offering actionable advice for modern professionals.",{"id":86,"quote_text":87,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":88,"source":89,"quote_tag":90,"commentary":50},1538493,"Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":49,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":50},{},[91],{"id":92,"tag":93},4532993,{"id":94,"tag_name":95},15444,"sitting",{"id":97,"quote_text":98,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":58,"author":99,"source":100,"quote_tag":101,"commentary":50},1538484,"But nowadays my heart is empty and the boxwood has lost its magic scent; yes, absolutely and entirely. 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