The Journal of Jules Renard
Jules Renard
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”
“There are no friends; only moments of friendship.”
“If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.”
“Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?”
“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.”
“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?”
“At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.”
“He walked noisily, like a fish.”
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Book Keywords:
free, happiness, general-truth
