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• A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Marriage, Wedding, Wife

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

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Country, Wells, Dies

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

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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.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Men, Brave

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

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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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• It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

  Jean Giraudoux

  People, Waiting, Odd

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

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• During war we imprison the rights of man.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Men, Rights

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

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• I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Giving, Pimp, Agents

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• Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Justice, Ordinary, Each Day

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Heart, Light, Self

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

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• Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Women, Sky, Mind

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

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• Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Miracle, Logic, Kind

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• Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Lying, Jockeys, Falsehood

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Running, War, Hero

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

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• Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

  Jean Giraudoux

  Country, Dying, Hunger And Thirst

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

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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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• Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Country, Fruit, Corruption

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

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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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• Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Real, War, Hate

  "'La Guerre De Troie Naura Pas Lieu' ('Tiger at the Gates')". Play by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry, 1935.

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