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Quote by Jean Racine

“Extreme justice is often injustice.”

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Jean Racine, born on December 22, 1639 and died on April 21, 1699, was a prominent French dramatist. Known for his tragic plays, he is considered one of the greatest representatives of classical French drama. more

“As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.”

Wells Light Air Fields Demand Bird Setting Settings Desert Charm Dull Shade Quotations Inquiry Framework Philosophic Sandy

Author:David Swing

“Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.”

Wells Earth Hate Stars Hurt Marriage Tears Flower Laughter Empty Protected Magnificent Mud Ugliness Mixtures Splendid Love And Hate Guarded

Book:Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

“We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.”

Father Corpses Our Father Live In The Present

Author:Guillaume Apollinaire

“One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.”

Secret Marriage Wife Curiosity Inquisitive

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

Quote by Jean Racine

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