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Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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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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What you get free costs too much.
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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
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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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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
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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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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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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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Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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Oh, love is real enough you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
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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.
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I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
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