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I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
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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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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