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21 " 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
22 " L'amore è come una clessidra: man mano che il cuore si riempie, il cervello si svuota. "
― Jules Renard
23 " When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness. "
24 " There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last. "
25 " As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more. "
26 " I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self. "
27 " There are no friends; only moments of friendship. "
28 " Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. "
29 " if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more. "
30 " Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. "
31 " Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you "
32 " If money does not make you happy, give it back "
33 " Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. "
34 " Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today? "
35 " God does not believe in our God. "
36 " In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg. "
37 " 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. "
38 " At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot. "
39 " 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? "
40 " He walked noisily, like a fish. "