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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Jules Renard

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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
Aphorist
Author
Diarist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
Men
Politeness
Clarity
Letters

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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 ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
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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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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
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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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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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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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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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As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
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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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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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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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