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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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Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
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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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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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One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
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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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I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
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However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.
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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
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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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The object of art is to give life shape.
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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
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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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Oh, love is real enough you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
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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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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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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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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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