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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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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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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.
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Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
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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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Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.
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Close your eyes, all you see is yours.
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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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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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There are truths which can kill a nation.
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It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
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Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live.
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Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.
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Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.
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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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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
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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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The spirit of a nation is what counts-the look in its eyes.
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When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.
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Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!
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Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
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