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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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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 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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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
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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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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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To think is not enough, you must think of something.
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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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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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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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 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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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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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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When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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There are no friends only moments of friendship.
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If money does not make you happy, give it back
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