"A man has only one way of being……" — Jean Giraudoux
"A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal."
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Jean Giraudoux
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67 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux has 67 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Demise Quotes
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
— Joseph Addison
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A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
— Aeschylus
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Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard…
— Dianna Agron
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I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
— David Bowie
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for…
— David Byrne
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Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will…
— B R Ambedkar
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When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the…
— Alistair Cooke
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Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend…
— Martin Rees
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Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual…
— Stanislav Grof
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The game of cricket existed long before I was born. It will be played centuries after my demise. During my…
— Donald Bradman
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