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Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
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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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 bourgeois are other people.
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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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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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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
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If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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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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There are no friends only moments of friendship.
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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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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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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
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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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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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God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
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