Jules Renard Quotes

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

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

Jules Renard
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?

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I am never bored anywhere; being bored is an insult to oneself.

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

Jules Renard
Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

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

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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.

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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.

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It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.

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I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.

Jules Renard
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

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

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

Jules Renard