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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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When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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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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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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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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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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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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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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God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
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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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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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