Jules Renard's best quotes
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. · There are no friends: there are moments of friendship. · I can swim just well enough to stop myself from saving others.. (Updated May 19, 2021.)
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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Top 13
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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
Journal, 13 April 1895.
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There are no friends: there are moments of friendship.
Journal, 4 January 1894.
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I can swim just well enough to stop myself from saving others.
Journal 1887-1910.
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The best health is not feeling your health at all.
Journal, 14 July 1896.
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The circumflex accent is the swallow of writing.
Journal, 8 May 1900.
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Dreaming is the luxury of thought.
Journal, 13 May 1897.
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Careful! Happiness that overflows splashes the neighbour.
Journal, 9 August 1905.
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Men are born equal. By the next day, they no longer are.
Journal, 12 September 1907.
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Fear of boredom is the only excuse for work.
Journal, 10 September 1892.
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
Journal, 13 January 1908.
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A word so pretty you'd want it to have cheeks, so you could kiss it.
Journal, 1888 (collected in Leçons d'écriture et de lecture).
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Everything is beautiful. You must speak of a pig as you would of a flower.
Journal, 9 May 1891.
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Irony is above all a game of the mind. Humour is rather a game of the heart, of feeling.
Journal, 1 January 1894.
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