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Jules Renard

Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renard (February 22, 1864 - May 22, 1910) was a French author and member of the Academie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de Carotte (Carrot hair) (1894) and Les Histoires Naturelles (Natural Histories) (1896)

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

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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

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I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts financial worries. - Journals

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

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Words should be only clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the 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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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

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

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

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A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.

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

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

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Patience is simply the mindset of saying “no thanks” to anxiety. – Unknown

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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-- I always have the last word in my house and that word is usually “yes.” --

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A fool is a man who think another man is a fool.

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Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

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Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

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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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I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not.

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

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

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

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

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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 in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.

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

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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.

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

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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?

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

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Words are the small change of thought.

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Wrinkles are engraved smiles.” -- Jules Renard --

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