Jules Renard Quotes - Page 3

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• Art: to nudge truth along a little.

  Jules Renard

  Art, Littles, Nudge

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.278, Tin House Books

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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

  Jules Renard

  Men, Long, Rewards

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.65, Tin House Books

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• Style is to forget all styles.

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Design, Style

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.45, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Wine, Water, Add

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• Words are the small change of thought.

  Jules Renard

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.22, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Birthday, Twenties, Midlife

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

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Literature, Pay

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

  Jules Renard

  Beautiful, Wings, Two

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.169, Tin House Books

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• 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.

  Jules Renard

  Fashion, Character, Men

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.269, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Art, Morality, Moral

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

  Jules Renard

  Acting, Actors, Talent

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

  Jules Renard

  War, Patriot, Bottom

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.136, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Doe, Three

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.17, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Attitude, Thinking, Empty Rooms

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• Style means the right word. The rest matters little.

  Jules Renard

  Mean, Writing, Style

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

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• To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

  Jules Renard

  Class, Horror, Bourgeois

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.28, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Dream, Moon, Thinking

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

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• Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

  Jules Renard

  Home, Doors, Waiting

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.130, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Suicidal, People, Photograph

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• The bourgeois are other people.

  Jules Renard

  People, Bourgeois

  Journal, 28 January 1890

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• We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

  Jules Renard

  Talking, Mystery, Existence

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.70, Tin House Books

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

  Jules Renard

  Dream, Men, Window Panes

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.243, Tin House Books

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• 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?

  Jules Renard

  Ugly, Sacred, Privilege

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.187, Tin House Books

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• Fame is a constant effort

  Jules Renard

  Effort, Reputation, Fame

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.18, Tin House Books

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• God, he whom everyone knows, by name.

  Jules Renard

  God, Names, Knows

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.70, Tin House Books

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