Jules Renard
17 quotations
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Fame is a constant effort
There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Words are the small change of thought.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.