French - Dramatist | October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.
Jean Giraudoux
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When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
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I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.
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If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
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Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
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There are no great people. There are only great topics.
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The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.
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It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.
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Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.
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Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.
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There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.
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