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Quote by Jean-Francois Regnard

“To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.”

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Jean-Francois Regnard, a renowned French poet, was born on February 7, 1655, and died on September 4, 1709. His poetry has made a significant impact on the history of French literature, known for its unique style and profound emotional expression. more

“Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer.”

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Author:Judith Perelman Rossner

“Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!”