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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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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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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
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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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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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Nothing is irreparable in politics.
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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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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
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All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.
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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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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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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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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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The object of art is to give life shape.
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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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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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I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.
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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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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
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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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The true masters of the art of living are already happy.
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