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“None love, but they who wish to love.”
-- Jean Racine
#Love #Wish #One Love
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“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”
-- Jean Racine
#Secret #Doe
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“Extreme justice is often injustice.”
-- Jean Racine
#Justice #Injustice #Extremes
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“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”
-- Jean Racine
#Sadness #Blood #Feeling Sad
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“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.”
-- Jean Racine
#Love #Lovers #Renewal
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“I can hear those glances that you think are silent.”
-- Jean Racine
#Communication #Thinking #Perception
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“Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?”
-- Jean Racine
#Hate #Passion #I Hate
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“Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.”
-- Jean Racine
#Faith #Iron #Slavery
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“Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.”
-- Jean Racine
#Wisdom #Worry #Too Much
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“And do you count for nothing God who fights for us?”
-- Jean Racine
#Faith #Fighting #Religion
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“When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?”
-- Jean Racine
#God #Faith #Night
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“What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?”
-- Jean Racine
#War #Blood #Doe
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“He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.”
-- Jean Racine
#Friday #Laughter #Sunday
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“Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.”
-- Jean Racine
#Fruit #Second Marriage #Suspicion
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“The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.”
-- Jean Racine
#Feelings #Mind #Lasts
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“The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.”
-- Jean Racine
#Mother #Crime #Burden
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“My only hope lies in my despair.”
-- Jean Racine
#Hope #Lying #Despair
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“And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?”
-- Jean Racine
#Goodbye #Time #Forever
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“You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.”
-- Jean Racine
#Passion #Tragedy #Literature
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“Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?”
-- Jean Racine
#Thinking #Holiness #Injustice
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“I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?”
-- Jean Racine
#Infidelity #Done #Unfaithful
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“I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.”
-- Jean Racine
#Hate #Passion #Guilt
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“To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.”
-- Jean Racine
#Honor #Ruthlessness #Virtue
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“I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.”
-- Jean Racine
#Choices #Waiting #Dying
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“You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.”
-- Jean Racine
#Order #Justice #Guilt
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“The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.”
-- Jean Racine
#Heart #Depth #Innocence
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“The joys of the evil flow away like a torrent.”
-- Jean Racine
#Evil #Joy #Flow
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“Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.”
-- Jean Racine
#Evil #Crime
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“All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.”
-- Jean Racine
#Sleep #Army #Wind
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“The part I remember best is the beginning.”
-- Jean Racine
#Remember
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