Today is the birthday of Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 – January 31, 1944), novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright."I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."
- Jean Giraudoux
“A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal”
- Jean Giraudoux
"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
"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
"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
"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."
- Jean Giraudoux
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