# Jules Renard's best quotes

The author of Carrot Top was above all a master of the short sentence: his best lines from his Journal (1887-1910), with the date he wrote them down.

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- May 19, 2021 · zen.tranquille
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## Top 13

1. **Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 13 April 1895.
2. **There are no friends: there are moments of friendship.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 4 January 1894.
3. **I can swim just well enough to stop myself from saving others.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal 1887-1910.
4. **The best health is not feeling your health at all.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 14 July 1896.
5. **The circumflex accent is the swallow of writing.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 8 May 1900.
6. **Dreaming is the luxury of thought.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 13 May 1897.
7. **Careful! Happiness that overflows splashes the neighbour.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 9 August 1905.
8. **Men are born equal. By the next day, they no longer are.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 12 September 1907.
9. **Fear of boredom is the only excuse for work.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 10 September 1892.
10. **The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 13 January 1908.
11. **A word so pretty you'd want it to have cheeks, so you could kiss it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 1888 (collected in Leçons d'écriture et de lecture).
12. **Everything is beautiful. You must speak of a pig as you would of a flower.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 9 May 1891.
13. **Irony is above all a game of the mind. Humour is rather a game of the heart, of feeling.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Journal, 1 January 1894.

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