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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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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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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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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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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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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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When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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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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Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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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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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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