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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
Aphorist
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Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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Talking
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Life
Mystery

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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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It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
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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
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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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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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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The bourgeois are other people.
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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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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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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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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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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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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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