Top 100 Jules Renard Quotes

#1. Art: to nudge truth along a little.

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#2. 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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#3. The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

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#4. We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice.

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#5. To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

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#6. God, he whom everyone knows, by name.

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#7. He walked noisily, like a fish.

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#8. True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not.

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#9. Being bored is an insult to oneself.

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#10. Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

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#11. The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

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#12. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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#13. There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

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#14. I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

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#15. Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

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#16. 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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#17. If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

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#18. To think is not enough, you must think of something.

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#19. I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

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#20. The horse is the only animal into which one can bang nails.

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#21. Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

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#22. The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

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#23. Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

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#24. It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

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#25. The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.

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#26. Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

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#27. 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 live.

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#28. It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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#29. To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

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#30. Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

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#31. God does not believe in our God.

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#32. It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

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#33. How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

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#34. We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

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#35. When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

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#36. If I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

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#37. The bourgeois are other people.

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#38. Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

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#39. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

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#40. Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

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#41. A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

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#42. Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

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#43. At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

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#44. In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

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#45. Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.

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#46. Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

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#47. If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

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#48. The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

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#49. Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

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#50. An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

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#51. Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.

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#52. When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.

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#53. The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

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#54. Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

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#55. Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

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#56. Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year!

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#57. Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

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#58. Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

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#59. Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

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#60. How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

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#61. Words are the small change of thought.

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#62. We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

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#63. A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

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#64. The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

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#65. 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 a big noise.

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#66. It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

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#67. Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

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#68. It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

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#69. The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

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#70. Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

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#71. In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

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#72. We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

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#73. Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

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#74. If money does not make you happy, give it back

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#75. 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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#76. In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.

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#77. Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

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#78. It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

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#79. Fame is a constant effort.

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#80. 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 efforts.

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#81. You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

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#82. 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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#83. I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

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#84. Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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#85. An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

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#86. 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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#87. Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

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#88. 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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#89. The less I understand life, the more I live it!

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#90. There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

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#91. I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.

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#92. There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

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#93. Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

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#94. Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

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#95. I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

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#96. Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

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#97. Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

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#98. 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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#99. Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

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#100. It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.

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