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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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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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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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To think is not enough, you must think of something.
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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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Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
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If money does not make you happy, give it back
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
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There are no friends only moments of friendship.
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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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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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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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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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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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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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