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A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.


Edmond Rostand

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Search out some powerful patronage, and be
Like crawling ivy cl...
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EDMOND ROSTAND A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.
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EDMOND ROSTAND A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise...
EDMOND ROSTAND And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamp...
EDMOND ROSTAND A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot p...
EDMOND ROSTAND My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists
EDMOND ROSTAND My soul, be satisfied with flowers,
With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them
In the on...
EDMOND ROSTAND ...But...to sing,
to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,
with a voice that sti...
EDMOND ROSTAND A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
EDMOND ROSTAND A promise more precise; the sealing of Confessions that till then were barely breathed; A rosy dot...
EDMOND ROSTAND Attendez!... Je choisis mes rimes... Là, j'y suis.

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He is looking at my nose---that skeleton
---What...
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
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JEAN ROSTAND Theories pass. The frog remains.
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EDMOND DE GONCOURT I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that on...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit co...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin
EDMOND DE GONCOURT a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it ...
EDMOND DE GONCOURT People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that o...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the tr...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad pic...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but ...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in re...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness fir...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes con...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the la...
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT