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1 " It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old. "
― Jules Renard
2 " Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. "
3 " I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. "
4 " If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room. "
― Jules Renard , The Journal of Jules Renard
5 " It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. "
6 " Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. "
7 " 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. "
8 " the important people in our lives leave imprints. they may die or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart "
9 " The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. "
10 " True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not. "
11 " Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none "
12 " Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it. "
13 " The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. "
14 " Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. "
15 " Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. "
16 " There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. "
17 " The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. "
18 " Wrinkles are engraved smiles. "
19 " L' amour est comme un sablier, avec le coeur remplir le vide du cerveau "
20 " 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. "
