"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."

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Source : Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

Jean Giraudoux

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“Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.”
“The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.”
“Nobody gets to pick what life gives them”
“When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.”
“Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”
“At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.”
“When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.”
“Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.53, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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