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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
— Jules Renard
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Jules Renard
writer, aphorist, playwright, novelist, diarist, literary critic, poet
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1864 – 1910
Pierre-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 the posthumously published Huit Jours à la campagne.
All Quotes by Jules Renard
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
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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.
— Jules Renard
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
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It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
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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.
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
— Jules Renard