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Life is short. Work is for those who will never be able to understand life. Idleness cannot degrade a man. To the discriminating eye it differs from laziness.
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Ah, the whites! Their malignity and their omniscience—that was what made them terrifying!
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Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.
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René Maran
Born:
November 8, 1887
Died:
May 9, 1960
(aged 72)
Bio:
René Maran was a French Guyanese poet and novelist, and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt.
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