Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules RenardAbout author
- Author's profession: Playwright, Writer
- Nationality: french
- Born: February 22, 1864
- Died: May 22, 1910
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But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel...
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