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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
Aphorist
Author
Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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Wrinkles
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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
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We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
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