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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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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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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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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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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 reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
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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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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
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