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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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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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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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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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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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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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One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.
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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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Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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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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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
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I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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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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What you get free costs too much.
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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
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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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