The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Jules Renard

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Jules Renard

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Jules Renard

As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.

Jules Renard

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Jules Renard

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Jules Renard

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Jules Renard

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Jules Renard

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Jules Renard

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

Jules Renard

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Jules Renard

Words are the small change of thought.

Jules Renard