Jules Renard Quotes
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Jules Renard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.
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.
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.
If I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
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.
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you
Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
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.
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.
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!
The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.