Jules Renard Quotes

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• How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
• A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
• 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…
• When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
• It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
• Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
• Words are the small change of thought.
• Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
• As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
• 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…
• Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
• Style is to forget all styles.
• Being bored is an insult to oneself.
• 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.
• The less I understand life, the more I live it!
• To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
• 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…
• We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
• The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
• The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

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