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Jules Renard

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
Aphorist
Author
Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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Ageing
Wrinkles
Smiles
Smile

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I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
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When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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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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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
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We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
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If money does not make you happy, give it back
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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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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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
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To think is not enough, you must think of something.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
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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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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
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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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