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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
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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 ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
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What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.
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On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
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We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
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Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
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Kill one man, and you are murderer.
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To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
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There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
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