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There are no friends only moments of friendship.

Jules Renard

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Literary Critic
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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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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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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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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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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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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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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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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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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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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Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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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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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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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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