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Jules Renard Inspirational Quotes (66)

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It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
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I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
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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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The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
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if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
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I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
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The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.
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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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