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I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.

Jules Renard

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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Bored
Self
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