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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.Jean Giraudoux
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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
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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
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.Jean Giraudoux
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Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.Jean Giraudoux
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I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.Jean Giraudoux
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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.Jean Giraudoux
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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
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There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.Jean Giraudoux
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.Jean Giraudoux
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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.Jean Giraudoux
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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.Jean Giraudoux
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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
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Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.Jean Giraudoux
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Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.Jean Giraudoux
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.Jean Giraudoux
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If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.Jean Giraudoux
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Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?Jean Giraudoux
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The secret of success is sincerity.Jean Giraudoux