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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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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
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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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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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Oh, love is real enough you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
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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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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.
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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 very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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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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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
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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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