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


"
— 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

""I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
"God does not believe in our God."
Yes, God exists, but He kows no more about it than we do."
"
— 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