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Jules Renard
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“Village. Certain neighborhoods are infected with hatred, pride, envy, malice. Only death can heal them. (May 8, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 270)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see nothing in my life but reasons not to write a novel. (May 24, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 271)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The "beautiful descriptions" put on me the taste for three-line descriptions. (May 24, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 272)”
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“I am sure that a humanity chaste would be infinitely superior. (May 24, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 272)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I climb up a chair to rummage through the bookcase, and if I see a torn book, I always take it. (June 16, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 272)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mourning: The black lie. (August 22, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 274)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is neither long nor short. It has some delays. (August 22, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 274)”
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“When you're about to die, you know fish. (November 23, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 276)”
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“A more unpleasant thing than careerism is the display of modesty. (December 10, C.E.1909; p. 278)”
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“I am ill, and I would like to say profound, somewhat historical things, such as my friends would repeat; But I'm too tired of nerves. (December 10, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 278)”
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“You have to be sick for a whole year to understand how long a year! (December 10, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 278)”
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“The mystery of the death is more than enough. All that goes into it is nothing more than a huge theatrical plot. (December 10, C.E.1909; Vergani, p. 279)”
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“Snow on the water: silence on silence. (January 26, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 280)”
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“Flood. It's always smaller than my little imagination imagines. (January 26, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 280)”
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“Dreamer like a cat looking at the bright rays of a lamp on the ceiling. (February 16, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 281)”
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“It is tremendous how hard it is to take an interest in the ailments of others when you are well. (January 26, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 281)”
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“Humor: modesty, play of the spirit. It is the moral and daily hygiene of the soul. I have a high moral and literary idea of humour. Imagination makes you swerve. Sensitivity makes you bland. Humor is, in short, reason. The regularized man. No definition was enough for me. On the other hand, humor has it all. (February 23, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 282)”
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“Between my brain and me there is always a layer that I can't penetrate. (February 23, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 282)”
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“By the way, I'm done. I could start again and it would be better: but no one would notice. It's better that it's over. (February 27, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 283)”
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“I have the apparent, docile and resigned life of a weathervane spinning on the roof. (March 6, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 283)”
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“Those who do not have the disease of scruples should not even dream of being honest. (March 15, C.E.1910; Vergani, p. 283)”
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“I'm not sincere even when I say I'm not sincere.”
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“I have read a few pages of this diary. At the end of the day, it's the best and most useful thing I've done in my life. (Jules Renard, 14 November C.E.1900; Vergani, p. 174)”
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“This diary empties me. It is not an opera. To make love every day is not to love, either. (Jules Renard, January 1, C.E.1901; Vergani, p. 177)”
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“This is a diary of abortions. (Jules Renard, December 1, C.E.1906; Vergani, p. 245)”
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“Leaning on their elbows, they follow with their gaze the mounds of the tunnels dug by the moles, which zigzag at the edge of the field, like the veins of the elderly. Sometimes they lose sight of them, sometimes they come out into an esplanade, where the devastating cuscuta spreads its beard of red filaments. Here the mole tunnels form a small village of huts built like those of the Indians. (2010, p. 31)”
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“Not everyone can be orphan. (2010, p. 126)”
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“Twilight is deceiving, as everyone knows. Things show their uncertain profiles. The flight of a gnat is as disturbing as the approach of a thunderstorm. (2010, p. 132)”
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“Every moment Poil de carotte reappears to me. We live together, but I hope to die before him. From (Jules Renard)”
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“Poil de carotte is a wrong, incomplete, badly composed book, because it came out of me in a flutter. From (Jules Renard)”
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“I can say that, thanks to Poil de carotte, I will have doubled my life. From (Jules Renard)”
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“Jules Renard, Diario C.E.1887-1910, translation and afterword by Orio Vergani, edited by Guido Vergani, SE, Milan, C.E.1989. ISBN 88-7710-141-5”
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“Jules Renard, Pel di carota, translated by Frediano Sessi, Giunti Editore, Florence, C.E.2010. ISBN 8809757483”
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“Jules Renard, Peldicarota, translated by Rossana Campo, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan C.E.2007. ISBN 9788807821936”
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