Jean Anouilh Quotes

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You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!

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Dying is nothing. So start by living. It's less fun and it lasts longer.

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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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It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout – not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice.

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This horror and all these useless gestures, this grotesque adventure is ours. We must live it. Death is absurd also.

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The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job. Anything will set it going.

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Orpheus—they've gone on now, the good as well as the bad.... They've done their little song and dance in your life.... They are that way in you now, forever.

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Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

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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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Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, one must write.

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There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.

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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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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

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When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past — and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy—and that is life.

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