Jules Renard Quotes

The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

I am never bored; to be bored is an insult to one's self.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

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

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.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

If money does not make you happy, give it back

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

God does not believe in our God.

In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.

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.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

L' amour est comme un sablier, avec le coeur remplir le vide du cerveau

He walked noisily, like a fish.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.

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?

Ecrire, c'est une façon de parler sans être interrompu. (Writing, it's a way of speaking without being interrupted.)

Ajouter deux lettres à Paris, c'est le paradis.

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world’s dreadful injustice.

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. Time is the only comforter.

Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. —Jules Renard, 1890

True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not.

L'amore è come una clessidra: man mano che il cuore si riempie, il cervello si svuota.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don`t try to be right.

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!

L'accent circonflexe est l'hirondelle de l'écriture.

People say of death, “There’s nothing to be frightened of.” They say it quickly, casually. Now let’s say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. “There’s NOTHING to be frightened of.” Jules Renard: “The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word ‘nothing.

N'écoutant que son courage, qui ne lui disait rien, il se garda bien d'intervenir

Quand je pense à tous les livres qu'il me reste à lire, j'ai la certitude d'être encore heureux .

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

The French author Jules Renard once wrote: 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. Wider, I would add, to every reality—not just to the happiness but to every heartache too.

Nu există paradis, dar trebuie să facem aşa ca să merităm să existe unul.

I don't claim to have taste , but of my distaste I am very sure .

The more one reads, the less one imitates. –

People say of death, 'There’s nothing to be frightened of'. They say it quickly, casually. Now let’s say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. 'There’s NOTHING to be frightened of'. Jules Renard: 'The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word nothing'.

People say of death, 'There’s nothing to be frightened of.' They say it quickly, casually. Now let’s say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. 'There’s NOTHING to be frightened of.' Jules Renard: “The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word "nothing"'.

People say of death, 'There’s nothing to be frightened of.' They say it quickly, casually. Now let’s say it again, slowly, with re-emphasis. 'There’s NOTHING to be frightened of.' Jules Renard: “The word that is most true, most exact, most filled with meaning, is the word "nothing."' ...

Au travail, le plus difficile, c'est d'allumer la petite lampe du cerveau. Après, ça brûle tout seul.

La pereza no es más que el hábito de descansar antes de cansarte

Il n’est pas nécessaire de mépriser les riches, il suffit de ne pas les envier.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of future happiness.

Scrivere è un modo di parlare senza essere interrotti

I don't know if God exists, but it would certainly be better for his reputation if he didn't

Dès qu'on nous embrasse, il est bon de prévoir, tout de suite, l'instant où nous serons giflés.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

An alone man is always badly accompanied.

It is a pity that those whose good graces we long for are always dead.

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.

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.

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)

The great French diarist Jules Renard (1864-1910) had small interest in non-literary art forms. When Ravel approached him wanting to set five of his Histoires naturelles, Renard couldn’t see the point; he didn’t forbid it, but declined to go to the premiere. He sat through Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and found it a ‘sombre bore’, its plot ‘puerile’. His attitude to painting was a little more responsive: he admired (and knew) Lautrec, and approved of Renoir; but he found Cézanne barbarous and Monet’s waterlilies ‘girly’. This was less philistinism than a robust admission of his own areas of non-response. And he did write one wonderful thing about painting, on 8 January 1908: ‘When I am in front of a picture, it speaks better than I do.’ It is a chastening remark, because most of us, when in front of a picture, do not give the picture time enough to speak. We talk at it, about it, of it, to it; we want to forcibly understand it, get its measure, colonise it, ‘friend’ it. We compare it to other pictures it reminds us of; we read the label on the wall, confirm that it is, say, pastel on monotype, and check which gallery or plutocrat owns it. But unless we are highly trained, we don’t know enough to recognise more than roughly how the picture relates to the history of painting (because it always does, even if negatively). Instead, we hose it with words and move on.

It’s a famous bull, and when they see him on the road, the passersby marvel at his size. They admire him from a distance: with the bow of his horns, he could toss any man high in the air, like an arrow—if, indeed, he hasn’t already done so. As gentle as a lamb when it suits him, he can fly into sudden rages when he feels so inclined, and people standing near him never know what’s going to happen next. The angler is peering at him sideways, out of the corner of his eye. “If I try to run away,” he’s thinking, “the bull will catch up to me before I have time to get out of the meadow. If I throw myself into the river, I’ll drown because I can’t swim. If I lie down and pretend to be dead, they say he’ll just come over to sniff me and leave me alone. But can I be quite sure? And what if he doesn’t go away? How dreadful! Best thing is to pretend I’m not worried, even if I am.

Jules Renard: “It’s not enough to be happy; other people have to be unhappy!

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -Jules Renard   This

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Money does not occur in nature, says the historian Jack Weatherford. Jules Renard, the nineteenth-century French writer, put it another way: 'I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. The first forms of money were commodity money, ranging from salt to tobacco, coconuts to rice, reindeer to buffaloes. The English word 'salary' derives from the Latin salarius, meaning of salt. (Roman soldiers were perhaps paid in salt, to flavour their otherwise bland food.)" ( Peter Watson, Ideas: A history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud, page 71).

«Я люблю тебя, как фразу, которую я выдумал во сне и, проснувшись, не могу припомнить.» Жюль Ренар «Дневник»

«И всё же я видел, видел, как пронеслось мимо меня счастье, там, на горизонте, в экспрессе.» Жюль Ренар «Дневник»

«Я не настолько чувственный, чтобы бегать за женщинами, но отлично понимаю, что любая могла бы сделать со мной всё, что ей угодно.» Жюль Ренар «Дневник»

Er is geen hemel op aarde, maar er bestaan wel stukjes van.

O escritor francês Jules Renard anotou no diário dele, em 1893: "Caso se construísse a casa da felicidade, seu maior cômodo seria a sala de espera".

Un livre nous déplaît partout où il nous ressemble.

« Si l’argent ne fait pas le bonheur, rendez-le ! » JULES RENARD

On Earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.