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Jean Anouilh quotes: We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. 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 quotes: Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.
Jean Anouilh quotes: I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations. I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
Jean Anouilh quotes: It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
Jean Anouilh quotes: What is this mania to love someone all one's life ? Why should we? What is this mania to love someone all one's life ? Why should we?
Jean Anouilh quotes: There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Things are beautiful if you love them. Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh quotes: We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically. We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.
Jean Anouilh quotes: All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones. All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.
Jean Anouilh quotes: It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me
Jean Anouilh quotes: Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
Jean Anouilh quotes: All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh quotes: When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past ... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past ... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
Jean Anouilh quotes: What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
Jean Anouilh quotes: The true masters of the art of living are already happy ... The true masters of the art of living are already happy ...
Jean Anouilh quotes: Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that. Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
Jean Anouilh quotes: However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy. However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
Jean Anouilh quotes: I like reality. It tastes like bread. I like reality. It tastes like bread.
Jean Anouilh quotes: The object of art is to give life shape. The object of art is to give life shape.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh quotes: All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly. All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
Jean Anouilh quotes: God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man! God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Jean Anouilh quotes: Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth. Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
Jean Anouilh quotes: In matters of money there's no such thing as enough. In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
Jean Anouilh quotes: A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Jean Anouilh quotes: A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it. A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Saintliness is also a temptation. Saintliness is also a temptation.
Jean Anouilh quotes: One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh quotes: God is on everyone's side ... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. God is on everyone's side ... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Jean Anouilh quotes: 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 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
Jean Anouilh quotes: Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world. Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden. Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid. Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life. Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Jean Anouilh quotes: There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh quotes: The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
Jean Anouilh quotes: What you get free costs too much. What you get free costs too much.
Jean Anouilh quotes: One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
Jean Anouilh quotes: With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Nothing is irreparable in politics. Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean Anouilh quotes: A happy love is full of quarrels, you know. A happy love is full of quarrels, you know.
Jean Anouilh quotes: An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Jean Anouilh quotes: Every man thinks god is on his side. Every man thinks god is on his side.

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