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Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Jean Giraudoux

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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (29 October 1882 – 31 January 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright.

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