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  • SevenTales
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    Cyrano de Bergerac, the ending. It's a little long, but is definitely my favorite quote of all.

    That I make a treaty? Never, never!
    Ah! Are you there, Stupidity?
    I know that you’ll lay me low in the end
    No matter! I fight on! I fight! I fight again!
    (He makes passes in the air, and stops, breathless.)
    Yes you take all from me: the laurel and the rose!
    Take them! Despite you there’s something though
    I keep, that tonight, as I go to meet my Deity,
    will brush the blue threshold beneath my feet,
    something I bear, in spite of you all, that’s
    free of hurt, or stain,
    (He springs forward, his sword raised;
    and that’s…
    (The sword falls from his hand; he staggers, and falls back into the arms of Le Bret and Ragueneau.)
    ROXANE (bending and kissing his forehead):
    that’s? ...
    CYRANO (opening his eyes, recognizing her, and smiling as he speaks: the actor must try to convey the multiple meanings of the word panache, a feather, the plume in his hat, display, swagger, attack, or just spirit.):
    My panache.