"I believe in the gods; or rather I……" — Jean Giraudoux
"I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded."
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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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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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There are truths which can kill a nation.
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More Absent Quotes
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
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Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
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All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
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