The Journal of Jules Renard Quotes

“The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of 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

“There are no friends; only moments of friendship.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“God does not believe in our God.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of 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

“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

“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

“At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year!”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“He walked noisily, like a fish.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“Ecrire, c'est une façon de parler sans être interrompu.
(Writing, it's a way of speaking without being interrupted.)”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“L'accent circonflexe est l'hirondelle de l'écriture.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“Une pensée écrite est morte. Elle vivait. Elle ne vit plus. Elle était fleur. L’écriture l’a rendue artificielle, c’est-à-dire immuable.”
― Jules Renard, Journal 1887-1910

“Oh ! Les vieilleries ! Vieilles lettres, vieux vêtements, vieux objets dont on ne veut pas se débarrasser. Comme la Nature a bien compris que, tous les ans, elle doit changer de feuilles, de fleurs, de fruits et de légumes, et faire du fumier avec les souvenirs de son année ! (19 octobre 1906)”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“It is a pity that those whose good graces we long for are always dead.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“Mən hər şeyi öyrənməyə, həyatdan geri qalmamağa elə can atırdım ki, axırda mehrimni hərfləri iri, ağ yerləri çox olan nazik kitablara saldım; ən yaxşı cəhəti də budur ki, həmin kitabları elə ordaca kitabxana rəfinə qoyub digər cildi oxumağa başlama qmümkündür.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard