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Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux
French Dramatist
Born: Oct 29, 1882
Died: Jan 31, 1944
Man Men People War Women You
Related authors: Alexandre Dumas Antonin Artaud Eugene Ionesco Jean Genet Jean Racine Jules Renard Marcel Pagnol Pierre Corneille
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux
Life Example Flower Poetry Reproduction Eternal
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
Truth Nature Law Better Poet Lawyer Imagination Way Better Way Study Freely Exercising Than Ever Interpreted
There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. Jean Giraudoux
Man Heart Brainy Diverse Joined Cannot Elements
The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection. Jean Giraudoux
Women Men Older Every See More Hypocrites Perfection Clearly Doll Up Us Really Grow Older Men
Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit. Jean Giraudoux
Love Men Unless Most Wives Deceit Deceive Form Fidelity Them
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets! Jean Giraudoux
Business Creative Cheese Imagination Tool Our Financier Poets Pound Share Like Stimulate Sell Stock Artist Commodity Fields Customer View Creative Artist Shovel Certificate Function
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. Jean Giraudoux
Beautiful You Woman Think See Admirers She Because Without Go Handsome Staff Them Much Who Nowhere
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. Jean Giraudoux
Marriage Women Faithful Think Alike Husbands Only Never Women Are Fidelity
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
People Walk Made Our Way Woven Eat Invisible Around Years Greet Us Garment Earliest
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. Jean Giraudoux
War Live Everyone Air New Learns Falsehood Element
Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord. Jean Giraudoux
Life Love Marriage Wife Rest Husband Other Never True Reached Discord False Same Whether Who Agreement Each Elemental Portion

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