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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
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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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The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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If money does not make you happy, give it back
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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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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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The bourgeois are other people.
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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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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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