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We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
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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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It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
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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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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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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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