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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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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
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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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Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
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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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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path
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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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A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
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Il y aura toujours un chien perdu quelque part qui m'empe chera d'e tre heureux. There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me being happy.
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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
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Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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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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Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
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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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One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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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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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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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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Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
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