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Jean Rostand

Jean Rostand

French writer

Lived from: 1894 - 1977

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 30 october 1894 Died: 4 september 1977

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  • It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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  • My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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  • Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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  • One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
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  • One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
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  • Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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  • Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
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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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  • Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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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 divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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  • The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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  • The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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  • The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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  • The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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  • There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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  • Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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  • To be adult is to be alone.
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  • To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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  • To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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