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Sarah Bernhardt
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“Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?”
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“Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.”
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“One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.”
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“[When asked in her later years why her Paris apartment was located up so many flights of stairs:] Dear friend, it's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.”
Sarah Bernhardt, French actor
(1844 - 1923)
Born: Henriette Rosine Bernard.