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“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
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“I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.”
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“The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself”
Source : Alexandre Kojève (1980). “Introduction to the Reading of Hegel”, p.27, Cornell University Press
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“You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?”
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“It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.”
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“I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.”
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“Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.”
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“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.”
Source : Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.172, Tin House Books
