If we could once forget the conventional things, the roses,… - Edmond Rostand

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If we could once forget the conventional things, the roses, the pierced hearts, the fairy wings and get to something larger, something true; instead of sipping from exhausted springs to drink from the full river in its flow.

Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac · August 5, 2003 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (1 April 1868 - 2 December 1918) was a French poet and dramatist most famous for his fictional play Cyrano de Bergerac, based upon the life of Cyrano de Bergerac.

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Alternative Names: Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand

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