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She wavers, she hesitates in one word — she is a woman.
Jean Racine
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Jean Racine
Age: 59 †
Born: 1639
Born: December 1
Died: 1699
Died: April 21
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Ferté-Milon (La)
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine
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The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
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Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.
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Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.
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Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?
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If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
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A single word often betrays a great design.
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The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
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The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
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