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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.

  Jules Renard

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

  Jules Renard

  Talent

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

  Jules Renard

  Thinking

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

  Jules Renard

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.234, Tin House Books

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• God does not believe in our God.

  Jules Renard

  Believe, Doe

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.131, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Injustice, Greater

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

  Jules Renard

  Sincerity, Sincere

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• 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.

  Jules Renard

  Death, Ignorance, Fire

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.41, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Happiness, Joy, Enough

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.71, Tin House Books

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• 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.

  Jules Renard

  Justice, Littles, Noise

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.251, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Funny, Money, Men

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

  Jules Renard

  Love, Inspirational, Valentines Day

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

  Jules Renard

  Turns

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

  Jules Renard

  Giving, Doe, Make You Happy

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

  Jules Renard

  Resent, Meetings, Ifs

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

  Jules Renard

  Heaven, Paradise, Doe

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• There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

  Jules Renard

  Solitude, World, Moments

  Jules Renard (1964). “The journal of Jules Renard”

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• 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.

  Jules Renard

  Laughter, Laughing, Heaven

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.257, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Self, Bored, Insult

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• Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

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  Broken, Lasts, Weakness

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

  Jules Renard

  World, Injustice, Forget

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.268, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Clothes, Fit, Made

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

  Jules Renard

  Inspirational, Life, Humility

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.83, Tin House Books

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• Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

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  Stupid, People, Today

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.230, Tin House Books

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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.

  Jules Renard

  Fashion, Writing, Air

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.79, Tin House Books

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