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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
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As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
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The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
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Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
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