Jules Renard Quotes
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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.
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In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.
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There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
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Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.
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I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.
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To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
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It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
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It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country.
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To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.
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We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
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Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.
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Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.
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Style is to forget all styles.
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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?
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Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
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Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
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Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
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Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it.
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A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
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I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.
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Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
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Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon.
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Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.
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God, he whom everyone knows, by name.
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I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
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Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.
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