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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
Jules Renard
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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
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How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
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Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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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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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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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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In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.
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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
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