quotes by Jules Renard

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
— Jules Renard

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
— Jules Renard

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
— Jules Renard

"It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old."
— Jules Renard

"As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
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— Jules Renard

"When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness."
— Jules Renard (The Journal of Jules Renard)

""Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.""
— Jules Renard

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
— Jules Renard

"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right."
— Jules Renard

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
— Jules Renard

"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire."
— Jules Renard

"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."
— Jules Renard

"Wrinkles are engraved smiles."
— Jules Renard

"He walked noisily, like a fish."
— Jules Renard (The Journal of Jules Renard)

"To be bored is an insult to yourself."
— Jules Renard

""Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.""
— Jules Renard (Histoires naturelles)

"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."
— Jules Renard

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old"
— Jules Renard

""Being bored is an insult to oneself.""
— Jules Renard

"I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued."
— Jules Renard (The Journal of Jules Renard)

"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none


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— Jules Renard

"There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last."
— Jules Renard

"I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

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— Jules Renard

"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."
— Jules Renard

"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

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if
you earn no money."
— Jules Renard

"Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?"
— Jules Renard (The Journal of Jules Renard)

"The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it."
— Jules Renard

"In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg."
— Jules Renard (The Journal of Jules Renard)

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."
— Jules Renard

"At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot."
— Jules Renard (The Journal of Jules Renard)

"God does not believe in our God."
— Jules Renard (The Journal of Jules Renard)

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
— Jules Renard

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
— Jules Renard

"Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it."
— Jules Renard

"`I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?"
— Jules Renard (The Journal of Jules Renard)

"It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish."
— Jules Renard

"I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself. "
— Jules Renard