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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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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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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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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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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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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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