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I have loved him too much not to feel any hatred for him.

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Ariane, my sister, wounded by what love,
You died on the shores where you were abandoned.


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To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

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I loved him too much not to hate him at all!

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Crime, like virtue, has its degrees;
And timid innocence was never known
To blossom suddenly into extreme license.


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Today, let us make haste to enjoy life. Who knows if we will be tomorrow?
In French: Hâtons-nous aujourd'hui de jouir de la vie. Qui sait si nous serons demain?

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It's no longer a burning within my veins: it's Venus entire latched onto her prey.

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You are Emperor, my lord, and yet you weep?

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Behind a veil, unseen yet present,
I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.


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All afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury.

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It is no longer a passion hidden in my heart:
It is Venus herself fastened to her prey.


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Jean Racine

Jean Racine
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Born: December 22, 1639
Died: April 21, 1699 (aged 59)
Bio: Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
Known for:
  1. Phèdre (1677)
  2. Andromaque (1668)
  3. Berenice (1671)
  4. Iphigénie (1674)
  5. Bajazet (1672)

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