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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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Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.
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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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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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Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
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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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What you get free costs too much.
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God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path
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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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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 true masters of the art of living are already happy.
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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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