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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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A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

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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.

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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.

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The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.

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There are no great people. There are only great topics.

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Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

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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.

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The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

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When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 29th, 1882

Died: January 31st, 1944

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