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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others.
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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
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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.
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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.
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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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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
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The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
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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.
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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.
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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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The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
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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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You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.
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At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.
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Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
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Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.
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Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.
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Love kills intelligence. The brain and the heart act upon each other in the manner of an hour-glass. One fills itself only to empty the other.
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
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I am not sincere even when I am saying that I am not sincere.
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In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.
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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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Born:
February 22, 1864
Died:
May 22, 1910
(aged 46)
Bio:
Pierre-Jules Renard or Jules Renard was a French author and member of the Académie Goncourt, most famous for the works Poil de carotte and Les Histoires Naturelles . Among his other works are Le Plaisir de rompre and Huit jours à la campagne .
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Poil de carotte (1894)
The journal of Jules Renard
Nature Stories
Histoires Naturelles (1899)
L'écornifleur (1904)
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