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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Literary Critic
Novelist
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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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Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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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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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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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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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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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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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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If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
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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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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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To think is not enough, you must think of something.
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Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
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The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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