The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
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More quotes by Jean Giraudoux
- I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
- Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
- 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.
- We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
- Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.