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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Novelist
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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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 truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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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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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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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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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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There are no friends only moments of friendship.
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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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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Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
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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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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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If money does not make you happy, give it back
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