QUOTE : Cyrano: I can see him there---he grins---<br />He is looking at my nose---that skeleton<br />---What's that you say? Hopeless?---Why, very well!---<br />But a man does not fight merely to win!<br />No---no---better to know one fights in vain!...<br />You there---Who are you? A hundred against one---<br />I know them now, my ancient enemies---<br />Falsehood!...There! There! Prejudice---Compromise---Cowardice---<br />What's that? No! Surrender? No!<br />Never---never!...<br />Ah, you too, Vanity!<br />I knew you would overthrow me in the end---<br />No! I fight on! I fight on! I fight on!<br />Yes, all my laurels you have riven away<br />And all my roses; yet in spite of you,<br />There is one crown I bear away with me,<br />And to-night, when I enter before God,<br />My salute shall sweep all the stars away<br />From the blue threshold! One thing without stain,<br />Unspotted from the world, in spite of doom<br />Mine own!---<br />And that is...<br />Roxane: ---That is...<br />Cyrano: My white plume....