Jean Anouilh Quotes
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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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I like reality. It tastes like bread.
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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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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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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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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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A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
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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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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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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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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.
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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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A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.