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Anger
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
-Jules Renard
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Books
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
-Jules Renard
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Communism
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Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
-Jules Renard
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Fame
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Fame is a constant effort
-Jules Renard
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Fear
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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
-Jules Renard
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Heaven
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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
-Jules Renard
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Laziness
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
-Jules Renard
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Life
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We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
-Jules Renard
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Love
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
-Jules Renard
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Poetry
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
-Jules Renard
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Praise
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Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
-Jules Renard
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Results
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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.
-Jules Renard
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Solitude
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If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
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There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
-Jules Renard, Journal, December, 1900
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Suffering
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A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
-Jules Renard
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Talent
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Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
-Jules Renard
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Truth
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
-Jules Renard
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Words
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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
-Jules Renard
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Words are the small change of thought.
-Jules Renard
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Worry
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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
-Jules Renard
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Books by and about Jules Renard