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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.

Jules Renard

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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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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We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
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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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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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As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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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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