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One Quotes by Jules Renard
- When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
- Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.
- The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
- The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
- 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…
- It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
- It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
- There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
- Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
- I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
- If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
- The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse
- The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
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