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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
Jean Anouilh
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Jean Anouilh
Age: 77 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 1987
Died: October 3
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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
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Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.
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The object of art is to give life shape.
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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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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
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Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
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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.
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Saintliness is also a temptation.
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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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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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Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
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Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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Believe me all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
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However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
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Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe chera d'e tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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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.
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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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