Jean Anouilh Quotes
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I like reality. It tastes like bread.
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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
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All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
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What you get free costs too much.
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
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Nothing is irreparable in politics.
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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
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Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.