Jules Renard
France
22 Feb 1864 // 22 May 1910
Author / Dramatist
22 Feb 1864 // 22 May 1910
Author / Dramatist
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend
As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more
An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
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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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays