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    Julien Greenoften Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote mostly in French and only occasionally in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes.

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    About the Julien Green

    Julien Greenoften Julian Green, was an American writer who lived most of his life in France and wrote mostly in French and only occasionally in English. Over a long and prolific career, he authored novels and essays, several plays, and a biography of Francis of Assisi, produced a four-volume autobiography, and for decades maintained a daily journal that he edited and published in nineteen volumes. The posthumous publication of the unexpurgated text of his journals presented a different version of his personality and sexuality, revealed details of the lives of many of his prominent contemporaries, and documented the gay subculture of 20th-century France.

    When elected to membership in the Academie francaise in 1971, he was the first non-French national to join its ranks. He was the recipient of many awards and one of the few writers to have his collected works published in Gallimard’s Pleiade library during his lifetime.

    11 Quotes by Julien Green

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      The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

      Julien Green

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      What is real is beyond all reach.

      Julien Green

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      I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

      Julien Green

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      The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

      Julien Green

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      Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one’s whole life is not always long enough to get there.

      Julien Green

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      Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

      Julien Green

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      A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

      Julien Green

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      A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

      Julien Green

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      The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

      Julien Green

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      Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

      Julien Green

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      I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

      Julien Green

      American author