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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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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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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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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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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
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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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Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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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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We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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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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Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
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The bourgeois are other people.
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
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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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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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