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This reflection on happiness by Jean Giraudoux resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in happiness is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Jean Giraudoux

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.

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"Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?"

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"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."

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"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."

— Jean Giraudoux
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"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."

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"Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness."

— Henrik Ibsen
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"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."

— Henry Drummond
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"There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true."

— Fiona Shaw
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"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

— Marcel Proust
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