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God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
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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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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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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Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.
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Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
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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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Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
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