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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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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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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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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
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