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Category: Jean Giraudoux

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I’ve never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

I Am, Woman, Fifty

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

Life, Game, Play

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.

Truth, Law, Imagination

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

Life, Flower, Poetry

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Heart, Man, Elements

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Impossible, Back, Rhyme

Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Live, Everyone, New

I forgot they were talking about me. They sound so wonderfully convincing.

thank, yous, closures

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

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

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

happy, inspirational, sad

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.

cabbage, capitalism, commercialism