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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

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Jean Anouilh
Age: 77 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 1987
Died: October 3
Author
Director
Dramatist
Film Director
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Bordèu
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
Feet
Tool
Child
Round
Upon
Rounds
Children
Evening
Life
Tools
Bench
Garden
Benches
Hold
Grip
Playing
Firmly

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