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Jean Giraudoux Quotes: Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.
         

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.


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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.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.



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.

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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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.



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One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.



To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.



A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.





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