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Jules Renard [1864-1910] French

Rank: 102
Dramatist, Author

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.

Age, Alone, Anger, Failure, Finance, Funny, God, Inspirational, Love, Nature, Space, Success

Quote	Tags	Rank
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.	Nature	101
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.	Funny	102
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.	Anger	103
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.	Inspirational	104
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.	Space	105
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.	Love	106
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.	Finance	107
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.	God	108
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.	Age	109
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.		110
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.	Failure, Success	111
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.		112
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.		113
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.	Alone	114
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.		115
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.		116
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.		117
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.		118
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.		119
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.		120
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.		121
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.		122
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.		123
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.		124
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.		125
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.		126
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.		201
We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.		202
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.		203
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.		204
Fame is a constant effort.		205
Words are the small change of thought.		206
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.		207
The bourgeois are other people.		208

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