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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
Jules Renard
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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Pierre-Jules Renard
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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 truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
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Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
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We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.
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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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Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
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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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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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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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To think is not enough, you must think of something.
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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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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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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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It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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