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Biography - Jules Renard:

French author.
Born: 1864 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
La clarté est la politesse de l'homme de lettres.

German
Klarheit ist die Höflichkeit des Schriftstellers.




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Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.




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Lucidity adds beauty to profound thoughts.





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For it must not be supposed that merely because the justness of an idea has been proved it can be productive of effective action even on cultivated minds. This fact may be quickly appreciated by noting how slight is the influence of the clearest demonstration on the majority of men.





Truth and clarity are complementary.





Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.





This dark light which falls from the stars.











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Quotes for: Politeness


You must be very polite to the Earth
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.





Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.





The artist can wish for nothing better than blunt friends and polite enemies.







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Quotes for: writer


Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.





The function of a writer is to call a spade a spade. If words are sick, it is up to us to cure them.





It is a pity that one cannot see the learned entrails of authors so as to discover what they have eaten.





The art of the writer consists above all in making us forget that he uses words.







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Jules Renard also said...


At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.





When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.





I was brought up by a library.





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





Life is short, but boredom makes it longer.





A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.












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