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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
Engraved
Ageing
Wrinkles
Smiles
Smile

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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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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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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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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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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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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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Don't tell a woman she's pretty tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
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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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God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
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It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
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As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
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If money does not make you happy, give it back
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