If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
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Jules Renard
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
True courage consists in being courageous precisely when when we're not.
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
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
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Words are the small change of thought.