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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.

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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One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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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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Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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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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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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The true masters of the art of living are already happy.
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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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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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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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Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path
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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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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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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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God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
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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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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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Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
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