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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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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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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
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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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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
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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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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
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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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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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A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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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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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
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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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The object of art is to give life shape.
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