Jules Renard Quotes
Jules Renard Quotes
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
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Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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Fame is a constant effort.
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I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
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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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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
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Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
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The bourgeois are other people.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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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 story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
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Words are the small change of thought.
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
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