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

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


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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.



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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.



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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.

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