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Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
Jean Giraudoux
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Jean Giraudoux
Age: 61 †
Born: 1882
Born: October 29
Died: 1944
Died: January 31
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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux
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To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
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The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility.
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Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
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All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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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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A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.
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The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
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Young girls are the chatelaines of truth they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.
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The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.
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In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
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Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
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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 to your bosom with all your strength that's the greatest human happiness.
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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
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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 great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent minded.
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Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
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