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To offend is my pleasure I love to be hated.

Edmond Rostand

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Edmond Rostand
Age: 80 †
Born: 1868
Born: April 1
Died: 1948
Died: December 2
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Playwright
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Marseille
France
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand
Hated
Pleasure
Moral
Love
Offend
Manners

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I am what I am because early in life I decided that I would please at least myself in all things.
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Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!
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All our souls are written in our eyes.
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A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
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A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the i in loving.
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I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone I have ten hearts I have a hundred arms I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!
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A bird who can gobble is qualified to teach crowing.
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A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
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A great nose may be an index Of a great soul
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Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5.
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How obvious it is now--the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you... All those beautiful powerful words, they were you!.. The voice from the shadows, that was you... You always loved me! Roxanne
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? An oath that's given closer than before A promise more precise the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.
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No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!
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I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
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Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.
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All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me... One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is... my white plume.
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To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
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Speak to me...be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize!... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac
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My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
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My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.
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