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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Jules Renard
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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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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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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 more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
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I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
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Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
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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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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible and in heaven, it won't be proper.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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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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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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The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
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We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
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