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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
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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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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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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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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