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Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

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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
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Custom
Carefully
Customs
Fit
Clothes
Words
Thought

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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
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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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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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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of 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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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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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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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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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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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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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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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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