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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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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
Aphorist
Author
Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
Forty
Admit
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Twenties
Understand
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Life
Birthday

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