"After all, what is a kiss? A vow……" — Edmond Rostand
"After all, what is a kiss? A vow made at closer range, a more precise promise, a confession that contains its own proof, a seal placed on a pact that has already been signed; it's a secret told to the mouth rather than to the ear."
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35 Quotes by Edmond Rostand
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It is at night that faith in light is admirable.
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Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow,…
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All our souls are written in our eyes.
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