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It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
Jules Renard
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Jules Renard
Age: 43 †
Born: 1867
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: May 24
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Chalons-du-Maine
Pierre-Jules Renard
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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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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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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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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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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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The bourgeois are other people.
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There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.
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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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I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
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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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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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To think is not enough, you must think of something.
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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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If money does not make you happy, give it back
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
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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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If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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