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Biography - Jean Racine:

French dramatist.
Born: 1639 - Died: 1699
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.



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Quotes for: death


Quotes

Quotes about death:


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.





The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.





Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.





Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.





A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.





After your death you will be what you were before your birth.











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Jean Racine also said...


Hope stole into my heart against my will.





Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.





There are no secrets that time does not reveal.





Extreme justice is often an insult.





The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.





Is a faith without action a sincere faith?












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