French - Dramatist | October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
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The secret of success is sincerity.
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I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
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Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
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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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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
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