About Jules Renard
Pierre-Jules Renard (pronounced [pjɛʁ ʒyl ʁənaʁ]; 22 February 1864 – 22 May 1910) was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist. He was a member of the Académie Goncourt and is acclaimed for Poil de carotte (Carrot Top, 1894), a bitterly ironical account of his own childhood. His other famous works...
More quotations from Jules Renard
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend—nay are dragged—towards evil.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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