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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
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Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Poet
Writer
Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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To think is not enough, you must think of something.
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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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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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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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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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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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If money does not make you happy, give it back
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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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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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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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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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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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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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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
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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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