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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like read more

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy -- common clay, if you like -- eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others -- the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

by Jean Anouilh Found in: Heroism Quotes,
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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible read more

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

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Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively read more

Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

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