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Quotations by author » Jules Renard
French Writer, 1864-1910
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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Love
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it
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Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Talent
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse
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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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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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There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
World
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, "Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?"
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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
Advice
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
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We spend our lives talking about this mystery - our life.
Life
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself
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