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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 consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it. — Jean Anouilh

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations. — Jean Anouilh

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. — Jean Anouilh

What is this mania to love someone all one's life ? Why should we? — Jean Anouilh

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. — Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them. — Jean Anouilh

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

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

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. — Jean Anouilh

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. — Jean Anouilh

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man. — Jean Anouilh

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

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me — Jean Anouilh

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. — Jean Anouilh

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. — Jean Anouilh

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. — Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. — Jean Anouilh

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. — Jean Anouilh

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past ... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. — Jean Anouilh

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. — Jean Anouilh

The true masters of the art of living are already happy ... — Jean Anouilh

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. — Jean Anouilh

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God. — Jean Anouilh

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man! — Jean Anouilh

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

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

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. — Jean Anouilh

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself. — Jean Anouilh

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. Jean Anouilh, French dramatist and playwright — George Washington

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

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

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose. — Jean Anouilh

All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly. — Jean Anouilh

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that. — Jean Anouilh

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. — Jean Anouilh

Saintliness is also a temptation. — Jean Anouilh

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. — Jean Anouilh

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough. — Jean Anouilh

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. — Jean Anouilh

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it. — Jean Anouilh

Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. — Jean Anouilh

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. — Jean Anouilh

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline. — Jean Anouilh

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. — Jean Anouilh

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers? — Jean Anouilh

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. — Jean Anouilh

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. — Jean Anouilh

Nothing is irreparable in politics. — Jean Anouilh

The object of art is to give life shape. — Jean Anouilh

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know. — Jean Anouilh

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence. — Jean Anouilh

What you get free costs too much. — Jean Anouilh

Every man thinks god is on his side. — Jean Anouilh

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy. — Jean Anouilh

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. — Jean Anouilh

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life. — Jean Anouilh

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

I like reality. It tastes like bread. — Jean Anouilh

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid. — Jean Anouilh

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