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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.
Jean Anouilh
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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.
Jean Anouilh -
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Jean Anouilh -
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh -
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean Anouilh -
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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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.
Jean Anouilh -
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh -
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh -
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Jean Anouilh
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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Jean Anouilh -
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Jean Anouilh -
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.
Jean Anouilh -
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Jean Anouilh -
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Jean Anouilh -
There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh
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Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
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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.
Jean Anouilh -
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Jean Anouilh -
A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Jean Anouilh