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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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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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Do not ask me to be kind just ask me to act as though I were.
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I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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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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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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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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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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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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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
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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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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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The bourgeois are other people.
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