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Jean Rostand

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It is politics to please and hoodwink those
Who flatter but despise us.
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To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.
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The only reality is the now. Why live in the tomorrows and the yesterdays? Live now.
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Here comes Glib-tongue: who can out-flatter a Dedication; and lie, like ten Epitaphs.
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In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.
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My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away,
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Don’t let your yesterdays ruin today, if you do, your yesterdays will ruin your tomorrow.
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The todays are the sum of our lives.
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I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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To be adult is to be alone.
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for w...
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To hate fatigues.
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ide...
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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To be an adult is to be alone.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn&#...
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and duri...
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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Theories pass. The frog remains.
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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know
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To be adult is to be alone
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Search out some powerful patronage, and be
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Paris wrapped in night! half nebulous The moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs.. A lovely ...
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JEAN KERR
Effective action is always unjust.
JEAN ANOUILH
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa...
JEAN KERR
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Thi...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
JEAN COCTEAU
Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE
Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
JEAN GENET
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc...
JEAN HOUSTON
Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
JEAN COCTEAU
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light...
JEAN COCTEAU
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
JEAN DUBUFFET
Art is science made clear.
JEAN COCTEAU
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
JEAN COCTEAU
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX
Despair is the only genuine atheism.
JEAN PAUL
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU
I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
JEAN COCTEAU
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
JEAN ANOUILH
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL