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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
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