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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 danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
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I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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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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We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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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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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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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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