“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”Jean Giraudoux Amphitryon 38Source: Amphitryon 38
“In wartime a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.”Jean Giraudoux The Trojan War Will Not Take PlaceTiger at the Gates (1935)
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”Jean Giraudoux The EnchantedThe Enchanted (1933)