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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
Aphorist
Author
Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
Words
Thought
Made
Custom
Carefully
Customs
Fit
Clothes

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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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When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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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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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
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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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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
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There are no friends only moments of friendship.
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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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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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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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We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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