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“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Inspirational #Motivational #Mediocrity
“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Happiness #Broken Heart #Heartbroken
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Flower #Example
“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Death #Order #Games
“There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Love #Heart #Men
“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

#Exercise #Law #Imagination
“If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Life #Years #Two
“One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Privilege #Witness #Catastrophe
“There are truths which can kill a nation.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Truth
“A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Husband #Spring #Women
“The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Mean #Play #Soul
“To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Women #Winning #Clothes
“As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#War #Rhyming #Impossible
“A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Creatures
“Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Smile
“A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Men #Demise #Earth
“Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Stupid #Hands #Voice
“Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Real #Moving #Leader
“All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Heart #Light #Self
“Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Women #Sky #Mind
“All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Men #Evil #Realizing
“During war we imprison the rights of man.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#War #Men #Rights
“Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#War #Air #Elements
“I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Years #Fifty #Able
“Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Business #Taken #Cutting
“Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Country #Dying #Mud
“Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering â€” at least half! All women!”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Race #Names #Suffering
“Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion,...”
-- Jean Giraudoux

#Miracle #Logic #Kind
“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

#Beauty #Beautiful #Fashion
“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

#Years #People #Way

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