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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
Jules Renard
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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Pierre-Jules Renard
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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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Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible and in heaven, it won't be proper.
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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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It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
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Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
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