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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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Literary Critic
Novelist
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Writer
Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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Mystery
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Lives

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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
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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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When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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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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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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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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How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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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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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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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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Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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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 profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
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