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Jean Giraudoux has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but…
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If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year,…
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I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are…
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A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.
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Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
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To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it…
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest.…
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The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring.…
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There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its…
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I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.
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Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson…
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer
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