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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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Pierre-Jules Renard
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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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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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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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The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.
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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 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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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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The bourgeois are other people.
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Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
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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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I am never bored to be bored is an insult to one's self.
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
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Clarity is the politeness of the man of 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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Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
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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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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
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