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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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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The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
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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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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
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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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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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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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We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
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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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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
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There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.
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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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When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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The bourgeois are other people.
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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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The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
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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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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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