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Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
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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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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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
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The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
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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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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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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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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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The bourgeois are other people.
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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
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if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
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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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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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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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There are no friends only moments of friendship.
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Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
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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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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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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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