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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Miracle, Sides, Logic

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• Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Men, Paper

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• Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Real, Moving, Leader

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• To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a great democratic institution-in fact, democracy's only success-the night.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Night, Worry, Democracy

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Husband, Spring, Women

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Air, Elements

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• Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Voice, Adults

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• Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Death, Retirement, Next Steps

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Years, People, Woven

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Regret, Responsibility, Light

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• Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Death, Dying, Horror

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• Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Smile, Sympathy, Condolences

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Years, Fifty, Able

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Beautiful, Witty, Money

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Girl, Rocks, Foundation

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Believe, Brooding, Agnosticism

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There are truths which can kill a nation.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Truth, Nations

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

  Jean Giraudoux

  Race, Names, Suffering

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--an almond tree or an oil well?

  Jean Giraudoux

  Garden, Oil, Tree

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.14, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Rhyming, Impossible

  'La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu' (1935; translated as 'Tiger at the Gates' by Christopher Fry, 1955) act 1

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Play, Soul

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Men, Demise, Earth

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Lying, Law, Duty

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Creatures

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