Jules Renard Quotes

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• Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

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  Writing, Way, Interrupted

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

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  Running, Motivation, Business

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• Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.

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  4th Of July, Choices, Liberty

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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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  Faults, Blame, Clarity

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.280, Tin House Books

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

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  Success, Congratulations, Failure

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.123, Tin House Books

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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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  Funny, God, Sarcastic

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• Being bored is an insult to oneself.

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  Funny, Humorous, Self

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

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  Love, Life, Marriage

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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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  Freedom, Food, Men

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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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  Relationship, Like Her, Compliment

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

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  People, Waste, Boring

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• On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

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  Nature, Heaven, Pieces

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• The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

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  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.26, Tin House Books

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, Eye, Changed

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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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  Book, Thinking, Certain

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.172, Tin House Books

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• 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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  Modesty, Easy, Difficult

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• To think is not enough, you must think of something.

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  Inspiring, Success, Business

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.138, Tin House Books

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

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  Lonely, Funny Inspirational, Loneliness

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• There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

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  No Friends, Moments

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.67, Tin House Books

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• Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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  Smile, Wrinkles, Getting Older

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Moments

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

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  Talent

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• 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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  Laughter, Laughing, Heaven

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• 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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  Memories, Forget Everything, World

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.256, Tin House Books

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

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  Hero, Men, Honorable Man

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