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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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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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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
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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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When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
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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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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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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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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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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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God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
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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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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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