Jules Renard Quotes
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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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A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
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I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my…
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When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
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It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
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Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
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Words are the small change of thought.
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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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As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and 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…
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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Style is to forget all styles.
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Being bored is an insult to oneself.
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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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The less I understand life, the more I live it!
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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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…
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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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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
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The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
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